NewsDiary: Again, DSS
NewsDiary: Again, DSS invites another Online Publisher
over an investigative story
The hierarchy of the Department of State Services has invited the
Publisher/Editor-in-Chief of Newsdiary online, Danlami Nmodu mni,
to the headquarters of the Agency in Abuja for questioning.
A DSS operative who called Danlami by telephone on Wednesday
morning, 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.
It could be recalled 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.
Danlami, a Member of the National Institute, Nigeria’s highest
policy think tank institution, Nigeria Institute for Policy and
Strategic Studies, who was asked to report for questioning, it was
learnt, will be at the DSS headquarters on Thursday morning from
10am.
PRNigeria[1] gathered that the
Editor-in-Chief is also General Secretary of the Guild of Corporate
Online Publishers GOPOC.