•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 ...
•Soldiers Troops of the Nigerian Army, operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS), and local volunteer forces yesterday successfully foiled what locals said would have been a large-scale attack by bandits on Bagna and Erena communities in Shiroro LGA of Niger State. Credible security sources disclosed that the move by the operatives ...
•Peter Obi and Sheikh Ahmad Tijjani Umar Islamic cleric Sheikh Ahmad Tijjani Umar has dismissed claims that he was detained by Department of State Services (DSS). The claim was made by former presidential candidate and member of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Peter Obi, who stated that the arrest happened shortly after he visited Sheik...
•DSS operatives and El-Rufai The Department of State Services (DSS) has announced the arrest and prosecution of five security operatives in connection with receiving bribes to facilitate the return of former Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai to Nigeria from Egypt on February 12. According to a brief statement by the DSS, the five officers h...
•DSS operatives and captured ISWAP Commander Sani Yusuf Operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) have arrested the sixth person involved in the 2022 attack on St Francis Catholic Church, Owo in Ondo State in which over 40 worshippers lost their lives and scores more were left injured. According to DSS, the High-profile ISWAP [&hell...
•Ribadu and El-Rufai The Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA) has responded to Malam Nasir El-Rufai, former governor of Kaduna State, who earlier sought clarification over the alleged importation of a toxic substance from Poland. In a letter to Nuhu Ribadu, National Security Adviser, El-Rufai had said information available to the pol...
•Malami The Department of State Services (DSS) today arraigned the immediate Attorney General of the Federation (AGF), Abubakar Malami and his son, Abdulaziz, for terrorism financing, aiding and abetting terrorism, as well as for the illegal possession of firearms. Malami and his son were arraigned before Justice Joyce Abdulmalik of the Federa...
•Alleged terrorism negotiator, Tukur Mamu An investigator with the Department of State Services (DSS) has told the Federal High Court in Abuja that complaints made by victims against alleged terrorism negotiator, Tukur Mamu, corroborated the findings by the agency. The sixth prosecution witness in the ongoing terrorism trial of Mamu said sever...

