A daughter of the lawmaker representing Ngala Constituency in the Borno State House of Assembly, Hon Bukar Abacha, has been reportedly murdered.
According to a Counter Insurgency Expert in the Lake Chad region, Zagazola Makama, the lady was strangled to death at the Gidan Dembe community in Maiduguri, the state capital, on Tuesday, October 17, 2023.
The husband of the victim, who took the corpse to the police station, was quoted to have said he found her lifeless body in his house with her hand and legs tied behind her back while her two-year-old child was crying.
The Gwange Police Division has evacuated the corpse to the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital for autopsy and investigation.
The incident, which caused tension and pandemonium in the area, attracted a large crowd of residents who thronged the scene to catch a glimpse of the sad incident.
Police, Amotekun Clash Over SWAN Cup Competition In Ogun
Officers of the Nigeria Police Force and the South-West Security Outfit code-named Amotekun corps on Tuesday clashed in Ogun State.
Naija News learnt that the dispute broke out between the operatives of the two security outfits during the Ogun State Sports Writer Association of Nigeria football competition in Abeokuta, the state capital.
According to Punch, the centre referee, Ayo Amos during the match issued red cards to players of each team of the police and the Amotekun for misconduct on the pitch, which did not go down well with one of the Amotekun’s players, who then invaded the pitch and attacked a police player and injured him.
An eye witness, who spoke on condition of anonymity, explained that the atmosphere became tense in the 65th minute of the encounter when Amos issued Amotekun defender, Akinloye Babatunde, a red card for violent conduct on a police player, Odukoya Olanrewaju.
The Referee equally sent off the police defender, Odukoya Olanrewaju, for retaliation.
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