DSS has become Nigeria’s most proactive agency, by Tonnie Iredia 

In the past, not many people knew anything about the Department of State Services (DSS) formerly known as the State Security Service (SSS). The few who knew something about the organization merely called it, government spy or the Secret Police because it reportedly operated in secrecy, wearing hoods and silencing anti-establishment critics. Indeed, its personnel wore no recognisable uniform; worked incognito and never said anything in public. The system was easily sustained during a military re