By Joe Udo ABUJA (CONVERSEER) – The Nigerian Department of State Services (DSS) has reportedly arrested a social media influencer, Sani Sarki (@Waspapping_) over social media posts supporting Iran, following the ongoing conflict involving the Islamic State, the United States and Israel. According to reports from familiar sources, Sani was arrested on Friday evening alongside…
By Our Reporter ENUGU (CONVERSEER) – Operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) on Friday 6, at Eha-Amufu and Umuhu in Isi-Uzo Local Government Area, Enugu State, arrested a suspected notorious Eastern Security Network (ESN) commander, Sabastine Odo Odam, and Ejike Daniel, a suspected member of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). Security sources…
By Zagazola Makama ASABA (CONVERSEER) – Three years after the murder of four soldiers in Ashaka Aboh, Ndokwa East LGA, Delta State, the Department of State Services (DSS), have arrested two suspects, linked to the killings. Sources told Zagazola Makama that the suspects, Ufuoma Sunday James and Lawrence Umuakpero Oboguayivwgue, were also implicated in the…
By Our Reporter CALABAR (CONVERSEER) – Operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) have on 27 December 2025, reportedly arrested the leader of a gang and one another, who kidnapped and murdered a prominent Professor of Neurology, Mrs Ekanem Philip-Ephraim in 2023, in Calabar, Cross River State. The gang leader, Patrick Essien Etim, 23,…
By Our Reporter ABUJA (CONVERSEER) – Hope has been rekindled in Otite, near Okene in Kogi State, as the long-stalled trial over the 2012 Deeper Life Bible Church massacre gains fresh momentum. Victims’ families, survivors, and community members have commended the Department of State Services (DSS) for the re-arrest and swift arraignment of Abdulmalik Abdulazeez…
By Joe Udo ILORIN (CONVERSEER) – The Department of State Service (DSS) has taken into custody a medical doctor who was ferrying drugs from Sokoto to kidnappers in parts of Kwara State. The doctor (name withheld) was intercepted in Jebba area following intelligence reports about the activities of the kidnappers and their couriers. The secret…
By Frank Ulom ABUJA (CONVERSEER) – The Department of State Services (DSS) on Thursday in Abuja arraigned a social media user, Innocent Chukwuemeka, who used his “X” handle to canvass for a coup in Nigeria. Chukwuemeka was slammed with a six-count charge bordering on false publication to cause public alarm and cyber stalking by a…
By Joe Udo ABUJA (CONVERSEER) – Two days after securing the sentencing of a leader of the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), Hussaini Ismaila, to 20 years imprisonment for terrorism, the Department of State Services (DSS) on Thursday in Abuja arraigned the suspected mastermind of the 2012 attack on Deeper Life Bible Church, Okene,…
By Joe Udo ILORIN (CONVERSEER) – A Nigeria Police officer, Ibrahim Muhammad, has regained his freedom after spending three months in captivity following his abduction by armed bandits in Patigi, Kwara State. According to Zagazola Makama, Muhammad was rescued by the Department of State Services (DSS) on 9th November at about 5:00pm. Converseer reports that…
By Joe Udo ABUJA (CONVERSEER) – The Department of State Services (DSS) has awarded N20 million as compensation to Chineze Ozoadibe and five other individuals wrongfully arrested. This was disclosed by the DSS Director-General, Oluwatosin Adeola Ajayi. The development has received commendations from Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA), and a jurist and visiting Professor…
