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After a Decade, DSS Bid to Re-Introduce Evidence Sparks Clash in Dasuki’s Protracted Firearms Trial

Prnigeria — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 16:55:32 +0000

After a Decade, DSS Bid to Re-Introduce Evidence Sparks Clash in Dasuki’s Protracted Firearms Trial In a dramatic turn within a decade-long legal battle, the trial of former National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki (rtd), was again mired in controversy on Thursday as the Department of State Services (DSS) applied to re-tender exhibits previously rejected […]

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US Arms Ban: Falana Urges FG to Release Dasuki on Bail

Femi Falana — Mon, 14 Nov 2016 10:30:14 +0000

Under the defunct military junta in Nigeria the Constitution was suspended while fundamental rights were put in abeyance. To justify the detention of the so called political extremists and other subversive elements the Buhari/Idiagbon junta promulgated the State Security (Detention of Persons) Decree no 2 of 1984. My colleagues and I in the human rights […]

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Army, EFCC Yet to Release Ex-Aide to Dasuki 10 Days After Court Order

Prnigeria — Wed, 23 Mar 2016 09:38:34 +0000

PRNigeria gathered that the serving Colonel is still being held incommunicado by the two authorities in defiance of the high court order of March 14, 2016 that directed his release.

A Judge of an Abuja High Court, sitting in Jabi Justice Yusuf Haliru had on March 14, 2016 ordered EFCC, and the Nigerian Army (NA), to release the serving Colonel Nicholas Ashinze who served as Military Assistant to former NSAs, Sambo Dasuki and Patrick Azazi.

Colonel Ashinze who was detained before resuming his new posting as Defence Attaché in Germany, has been in detention since December 23, 2015.

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Dasuki Challenges FG for Disobeying Court’s Orders

Prnigeria — Fri, 22 Jan 2016 13:23:57 +0000

In the application, Dasuki is praying for an order of court prohibiting the Federal Government from further prosecuting him on the N19 billion alleged fraud or any other charge or seeking any form of indulgence before any court in the country, until the order admitting him to bail is obeyed.

He also wants an order discharging him of all the offenses contained in the charge on ground that the charge cannot not lawfully‎ prosecuted by a government that is in brazen disobedient of a lawful court order.

Alternatively, the ex NSA prays for an order staying further proceedings in the charge until he has exhausted the remedies available to him in law for the enforcement of his right to liberty as preserved by the bail order granted him.

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