State Security Service

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The State Security Service (SSS; German  State Security Service ), the domestic intelligence service of Nigeria (headquarters: Abuja ). The intelligence service has been known as the Department of State Services ( DSS ) since around 2011 , although the name change was not published in the Official Journal . The service was founded in 1986. The service is accused of human rights violations .

Individual evidence

  1. a b Nigeria fight against Boko Haram: Caught in the spiral of violence. Amnesty International , November 1, 2012, archived from the original August 1, 2016 ; accessed on May 15, 2018 .
  2. Samuel Ogundipe: FACT CHECK: How Nigeria's secret police, SSS, is viola ting the law and illegally parading itself as DSS. In: Premium Times. August 16, 2016, accessed May 15, 2018 .
  3. Felix Ejukonemu Oghi, Julius O. Unumen: Military Intelligence and the Challenge of National Security in Contemporary Nigeria . In: International Journal of Research in Humanities and Social Studies . tape 1 , no. 2 , December 2014, ISSN  2394-6296 , p. 10 ( ijrhss.org [PDF]).