•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...
•DSS operatives The Awujale Kingmakers Council has announced the cancellation of a planned meet-and-greet earlier scheduled to be held at the Aafin Awujale, directing instead that Awujale nominees report to the Department of State Services office in Ijebu-Ode today by 11 am. This was contained in a formal communication dated January 20, 2026, ...
•Malami and DSS operatives The Department of State Security, DSS, has rearrested Nigeria’s former Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, after he was released on bail from the Kuje Correctional Centre in Abuja yesterday. A security source confirmed Malami’s arrest, saying, “Yes, it is true that DSS o...
Operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) have rescued two pastors and a church member abducted by suspected bandits in Kaduna State, and arrested three suspects linked to the crime in Niger State. The victims Rev. Idi Buhari, Emmanuel Jacob and Suleiman Adamu were kidnapped on January 9, 2026, at Gwagwada in Chikun Local […]
Operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) have arrested the suspected killers of a Professor of Neurology, Ekanem Philip Ephraim, nearly two years after the murder. A credible source confirmed this to our correspondent today, identifying the gang leader as a 24-year-old Patrick Essien Etim and his accomplice, Bassey Antiha Asuquo, 4...
Following the recent arraignment by the Department of State Security (DSS) of Abdulmalik Abdulazeez Obadaki, the suspected mastermind of the 2012 gun attack on a Deeper Life Bible Church, Otite, near Okene, in Kogi State, which killed over 19 worshippers, families of victims and survivors have thanked the secret police for re-arresting and spe...
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