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The ERC, in a statement by its spokesperson, Gideon Adeyeni, said the SSS has also invited its leaders over their dissent to the government’s student loan scheme.

The Education Rights Campaign (ERC) has condemned the Department of State Services over the continued infiltration of its activities. The group in a press statement by Gideon Adeyeni, Its National Spokesperson mentioned that the DSS had engaged in active surveillance of the ERC and that the group’s activities were regularly infiltrated by its operatives posing as activists. Recall that the group has been a major critic of the President Bola Tinubu-led government loan scheme which it described ...

Nigeria’s secret police, the Department of State Services (DSS) has invited the national coordinator of the Education Right Campaign (ERC), Hassan Taiwo Soweto, for holding a programme highlighting why the President Bola Tinubu-led government loan scheme was a scam.  The group had asserted that the loan scheme had not worked anywhere else, noting that it would only transform public education into a business and students into its customers.