DSS goes after Another Journalist, Danlami Nmodu

Thu, Dec 12, 2019
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Politics

THE Department of State Services has invited Danlami Nmodu, publisher and editor-in-chief of Newsdiary online, to its headquarters in Abuja for questioning.

A DSS operative, who called Danlami by telephone on Wednesday, December 11, said the invitation was with respect to a story recently published on the Kano Ecological Fund projects.

He was asked to come either Wednesday or Thursday morning. Realnews recalls that Newsdiary online had published a story, titled: “Diplomatic backlash, legal tussle loom as FG dumps German firm over Kano Project.”

After publishing the story, the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha, made further facts available through a rejoinder, which clarified the issues.

The  Federal Government’s equally illuminating rejoinder was copiously published by the newspaper.

The online newspaper was also among those who went for an on-the-spot assessment of the Challawa, Sharada and Bompai N2.6 billion ecological projects in Kano in the aftermath of the Newsdiary online story.

However, highly placed sources said on Wednesday that the DSS may be investigating how some documents quoted by Newsdiary online leaked.

The editor-in-chief, a member of the National Institute of Policy and Strategic Studies, Kuru, Nigeria’s highest policy think tank institution,  who was asked to report for questioning,  will be at the DSS headquarters on today.

Nmodu is also the general secretary of the Guild of Corporate Online Publishers.

– Dec. 12, 2019 @ 9:55 GMT |

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