Department of State Services (DSS), has re-opened the “cold case” of the 2019 disappearance, in Kaduna, of a renowned government critic, Abubakar Idris, better known as Dadiyata, and several other cases of missing persons linked to a former governor of Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai. A top security source...
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Operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) in Kano State have rescued a kidnapped five-year-old boy, Muhammad Haruna, following a targeted operation at Danzaki Village in Minjibir Local Government Area of the state. Security sources said the abductors demanded a ransom of N15 million from the victim’s family....
An 8th witness of the Department of State Services (DSS), in the ongoing trial of suspected attackers of the St. Francis Catholic Church in Owo, Ondo State, in 2022, on Wednesday corroborated the Tuesday testimony of a 7th witness who identified one of the suspects as being part of...
*Prosecution tenders autopsy report confirming victims died of gunshot wounds A witness of the Department of State Services (DSS), in the ongoing trial of four men accused of being behind the June 5, 2022 attack on the St. Francs Xavier Catholic Church, Owo, Ondo State on Tuesday identified one...
Three years after the murder of four soldiers in Ashaka Aboh, Ndokwa East LGA, Delta State, the Department of State Services (DSS), has arrested two suspects, linked to the killings. The suspects, Ufuoma Sunday James and Lawrence Umuakpero Oboguayivwgue, were also implicated in the beheading of Chief Okwudili Obi...
Justice J. K. Omotosho of the Federal High Court, Maitama, Abuja, On Thursday, February 5, 2026, ordered the Nigeria Police Force, NPF, and the Department of State Services, DSS to investigate his court Registrar, Nasiru Onimisi Zubairu as well as the 2nd defendant in an alleged N10billion fraud, Daudu...
Chief Judge of the Federal High Court (FHC), Justice John Tsoho, has re-assigned the money laundering case and the civil suit for forfeiture of 57 property filed against Abubakar Malami to Justice Obiora Egwuatu of the Federal High Court. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that hearing dates...
The Department of State Services (DSS), on Tuesday 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...
*Rescuing 70 kidnapped victims Speaker of the Niger State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Abdulmalik Mohammed Sarkin-Daji, has commended the Nigerian Army, the Department of State Services (DSS), and other security agencies for what he described as remarkable successes recorded against bandits in Mariga Local Government Area and parts...
A covert intelligence operation coordinated by the Army Headquarters and the State Security Service (SSS), helped thwart a deadly plot to overthrow President Bola Tinubu’s government and assassinate key political figures, PREMIUM TIMES has authoritatively reported. Multiple senior administration insiders said the plot began to unravel in late September...
A Department of State Services (DSS)’ investigator, on Thursday in Abuja, told the Federal High Court how complaints lodged by rescued victims of the 2022 Abuja-Kaduna bound train attack against alleged terrorist negotiator, Tukur Mamu, confirmed investigations by the secret police. The DSS operative, who testified as 6th prosecution...
Former Presidential aide, Reno Omokri has explained why former presidential candidate Omoyele Sowore cannot lawfully rely on his past statements to justify calling President Bola Ahmed Tinubu a drug baron, insisting that those remarks were long withdrawn after being found to be false. Omokri made this known in a...
Federal High Court on Tuesday in Abuja cautioned counsel to the presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC) in the 2023 election, Omoyele Sowore, Marshall Abubakar, against deploying tactics to delay a suit filed against the politician by the Department of State Services (DSS). The DSS is prosecuting...
Operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) on Saturday, arrested two suspected members of a band of sea pirates in Yenagoa, capital of Bayelsa State, as they were fine-tuning plans to hijack a crude oil-laden vessel in the Gulf of Guinea. The men, identified as Geoffrey Atizara, 38,...
Nigeria reaffirmed during the weeks its strategic commitment to defeating banditry, terrorism and strengthening national security through deeper collaboration with the United States, as the National Security Adviser (NSA), Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, hosted a high-level U.S. delegation led by Allison Hooker, for a strategic security parley. The meeting, attended...
Former Chairman of the governing board of the Nigerian Copyright Commission (NCC).l, Dr. Tonye Clinton Jaja, has filed a fundamental rights suit at the Federal High Court in Abuja against the immediate past Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, SAN, and five others for alleged...
A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Thursday overulled a move by presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC), Omoyele Sowore, to stop the Department of State Services (DSS) from tendering in evidence a flash drive containing video clips, including of him calling President Bola Tinubu ‘criminal’...
*Proceedings continue March 2 One of the suspects being prosecuted by the Department of State Services (DSS) alongside Khalid Al-Barnawi and three others for being behind the August 26, 2011, bombing of the United Nations building in Abuja, has told a Federal High Court in Abuja how he joined...
Former Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, SAN, has been arrested by operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) shortly after his release from Kuje Correctional Centre in Abuja. Malami was reportedly taken into custody after fulfilling his bail conditions and stepping out of...
Former Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Mali, has been arrested by operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS), in connection with alleged terrorism financing. Malami, a senior advocaate of Nigeria (SAN), served as Nigeria’s chief law officer from November 2015 to May 2023 under...