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Just In: Court reserves judgment in DSS’ Staff N5.5b defamation suit against SERAP

Daily Dispatch February 19, 2026

A High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), sitting in Maitama, Abuja, has reserved judgment till a date to be communicated to parties, in a N5.5billion defamation suit by two operatives of the Department of State Services (DDS) against a group, the Socio-economic Rights and

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Owo church bloodbath: 10th DSS’ witness narrates how forensic analysis implicated attackers

Daily Dispatch February 18, 2026

….Court admits their confessional statements An officer of the Department of State Services,(DSS) on Wednesday told a federal high court how cell phone analysis of the four men being prosecuted for allegedly carrying out the June 5, 2022 attack on the St. Francis Catholic Church in Owo, Ondo State, placed them at the crime scene. […]

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Breaking: As El-Rufai honours EFCC invitation, DSS sues for alleged cybercrimes, breaching Communications Act

Daily Dispatch February 16, 2026

The Department of State Services (DSS) has filed a charge against the immediate past governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai over his alleged involvement in wiretapping the telephone lines of the National Security Adviser (NSA), Mallam Nuhu Ribadu. In the three-count charge, marked: FHC/ABJ/CR/99/2026 was filed early on Monday before the Federal High Court in […]

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How DSS’ probe of El’Rufai, sons’ alleged involvement in Dadiyata’s kidnap led to passport seizure

Daily Dispatch February 16, 2026

The 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 who made the disclosure, also […]

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CAIDOV Urges DSS to Arrest El-Rufai Over Alleged Admission of Tapping NSA’s Calls

Daily Dispatch February 14, 2026

The Centre Against Injustice and Domestic Violence (CAIDOV) has called on the Department of State Services (DSS) to urgently investigate and arrest former Kaduna State governor, Nasir El-Rufai, over what it described as a confession to tapping the telephone lines of the National Security Adviser (NSA). In a statement issued on Saturday by the Executive […]

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DSS rescues kidnapped five-year-old in Kano, arrests suspect

Daily Dispatch February 13, 2026

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. According to the source, the rescue […]