A witness of the Department of State Services (DSS) disclosed to a Federal High Court on Tuesday that terrorist negotiator Tukur Mamu allegedly received the sum of N50 million from the leader of the group involved in the March 8, 2022, Abuja-Kaduna train attack and kidnapping of passengers.
Special Operations Unit of the National Drug Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) busted a secret warehouse in 23 Sunny Billa East Street, Bucknor, Isheri, Isolo, where some drug barons conceal and stockpile illicit drugs. During the raid, the operatives uncovered millions of tramadol pills and bottles of codeine and apprehended a suspected drug peddler, Pius Nwanagu, and five group members.
The twenty-four schoolgirls abducted from Government Girls Secondary School, Maga, in Danko-Wasagu Local Government Area of Kebbi State on November 17 have regained their freedom.
Less than a month after ordering the release and compensation of an Abuja-based businesswoman, Mrs. Chineze Ozoadibe, the Director General (DG), State Security Services (DSS), Oluwatosin Adeola Ajayi, has ordered the release of one Kenneth Okechukwu Nwafor, arrested in July 2022, for his alleged involvement in the proscribed Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB).
A Federal Court in Abuja on Thursday sentenced the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, to life imprisonment after being convicted on all seven counts of terrorism filed against him.
On 18 November 2025, one of the leaders of the Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP), Ismaila (aka Mai Tangaran), who has been standing trial before Justice Emeka Nwite of the Federal High Court (FHC) in Abuja since 2017, pleaded guilty and was convicted on a four-count terrorism charge brought against him by the Department of State Services (DSS) under the Terrorism Prevention Amendment Act 2013.
