•The suspects Operatives of the Department of State Services and troops of the Nigerian Army yesterday foiled a major attempt by members of the outlawed Eastern Security Network to kidnap scores of students writing the ongoing West African Senior School Certificate Examination in some Southeast states. The targeted schools for the abductions w...
•Sunday Igboho, DSS operative and Atiku Abubakar Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has called on the Department of State Services and other security agencies to invite Yoruba nation campaigner, Sunday Igboho, to disclose the identities of politicians he alleged are sponsoring kidnappers responsible for the abduction of students and teacher...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has confirmed that one of its staff members with legitimate access to its Continuous Voter Registration CVR database is now at the centre of an investigation into the unauthorised disclosure of a voter record belonging to a candidate in a recent party primary in the Federal Capital Territory...
•DSS operatives and Prof Okey Ndibe The Department of State Services (DSS) has officially reacted to the viral insinuations surrounding the alleged “arrest and detention” of Prof Okey Nadine, a globally known journalist at Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos yesterday, June 1, 2026. An explicit statement signed and issued by Favour D...
•Labour Party national chairman, Nenadi Usman The Labour Party has petitioned the Inspector-General of Police and the Department of Security Service over the alleged illegal distribution of nomination forms by a former national chairman of the party, Julius Abure. The party’s National Chairman, Senator Nenadi Usman, made the allegation while s...
•El-Rufai The family of former Kaduna State Governor, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, today, raised the alarm after the Department of State Services, DSS, officials allegedly took him into custody following a court sitting at the Federal High Court in Abuja. According to the family, the action was in apparent breach of existing court orders directing t...
The Federal Capital Territory High Court in Maitama, Abuja, on Tuesday ordered the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project to pay N100m in damages to two officials of the Department of State Services over a defamatory publication on X. Justice Yusuf Halilu, who delivered judgment in the suit marked FCT/HC/CV/4547/24, held that the cla...
•Walida Abdulhadi A Federal High Court in Dutse, Jigawa State capital, has ordered the Department of State Services (DSS) to hand over Ifeanyi Onyewuenyi, its operative accused of abducting and forcefully impregnating Walida Abdulhadi, a teenager, to the police for investigation. It was earlier reported how Onyewuneyi allegedly abducted the 16...
A Federal High Court in Abuja today heard how operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) tracked and arrested a man accused of sending threat messages to schools in the Federal Capital Territory. An operative of the DSS, Michael Jego, told the court that the agency received petitions from three Abuja-based schools in 2024 […]
•Kwankwaso The Department of State Service (DSS) yesterday subjected five media aides of Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf to thorough interrogation over allegations of cyberbullying and defamation of character initiated by former presidential candidate of New Nigerian Peoples Party (NNPP) Sen. Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso. The aides include Director General ...

