Two students have died and two others are currently receiving treatment after being assaulted by their schoolmates at Government Secondary School, Bichi, in Kano State.

According to a post on Wednesday by security analyst Zagazola Makama on X, and confirmed by the Kano State Police Command, the tragic incident occurred late on Sunday night.

The school principal, Yusuf Ado Yakasai, reported the incident to the police on Monday, July 15. He said that at about 11:30 p.m. on July 14, a group of senior students allegedly lured four fellow students, Hamza Idris (19, SS3B), Umar Yusuf (18, SS2C), Ibrahim Ibrahim (SS2B), and Aliyu M. Nasir (SS2C), into one of the hostels, where they were brutally attacked over accusations of involvement in what was described as “unnatural offences.”

The victims were immediately taken to Bichi General Hospital. However, Idris and Yusuf were pronounced dead, while Ibrahim and Nasir are currently hospitalized and said to be responding to treatment.

Police said twelve suspects have been arrested in connection with the incident. They include: Suleman Abdullahi, Ahmad Sanusi, Lawan Alasan Tambai, Aliyu Idris, Abubakar Abdulaziz (all of SS3A); Ibrahim Nura, Hamza Isiyaku (SS3B); Usaini Mamuda, Masaudu Idris, Yasir Murtala (SS3C); and
Abubakar Muhammad (SS3D).

The Kano State Police Command stated that an investigation is ongoing and that those found culpable will face prosecution according to the law.

The Special Assistant to former Vice President Atiku Abubakar on Public Communication, Phrank Shaibu, has challenged President Bola Tinubu to sack his Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, over his comment on late former President Muhammadu Buhari.

Shaibu said Tinubu’s presidency has sunk to the level where he now fights with “ghosts” and blames the dead.

He was reacting to Onanuga’s post on X regarding Buhari’s 12 million votes.

Onanuga had posted a video of a large crowd with the caption: “A video to rejig the memory of those who claimed that only Buhari’s 13 million votes gave him the presidency in 2015 and 2019.”

The video has been deleted by Onanuga amid backlash.

He posted the video on Tuesday while preparations were ongoing for Buhari’s burial in Daura, Katsina State.

Reacting, Shaibu insisted that Onanuga got Tinubu’s clearance before posting such a video, before he deleted it.

Posting on X, Shaibu wrote: “@aonanuga1956, this is how low the Tinubu presidency has sunk.

Fighting ghosts because it cannot face Nigerians. Blaming a dead man because the living one in Aso Rock is clueless.

If @MBuhari was so irrelevant, why is your presidency still trembling at his shadow and his 12 million votes?

Why are you dragging his corpse into a propaganda war just to defend a regime choking under its own incompetence?

Let’s be honest. Tinubu has failed in record time. His ‘renewed hope’ is now renewed hunger. And his legacy is already hiding behind the coffin of his predecessor.

This is not governance. It is a circus of insecurity, where those in charge panic at the truth and lash out at the dead because they have lost control of the living.

The Tinubu presidency cannot tame inflation, cannot stop the naira from bleeding, cannot keep the lights on or salaries paid, but has time to launch a PR war against a dead man.

A government that is losing the living is now picking fights with the dead.

If this is the best @officialABAT’s media team can offer, then we truly have no leadership, only loud bitterness masking quiet failure.

Let us stop pretending. No presidential aide attacks a former head of state who is not even buried without clearance from the top.

If @officialABAT did not approve the gutter-level assault on Buhari’s legacy, let him prove it. Sack @aonanuga1956 now.

Otherwise, Nigerians will know this is not just indiscipline. It is a cowardly hit job signed by the President himself.

#TinubuFailedAlready #BlameGameGovernment #RespectTheDead #BuhariDidNotStartYourIncompetence #SackOnanugaNow

Renowned Nollywood actress and producer, Mary Remmy Njoku, has raised concerns over the competence of medications in Nigeria following a recent experience with food poisoning on a film set.
In a post shared on Instagram, the actress raised an alarm about potential fake drugs circulating in the country.

Njoku recounted how she purchased Imodium, a medication used to treat diarrhea, from a prominent pharmacy chain in Nigeria.

She explained that despite taking the medication for three days, her symptoms persisted.

However, when her husband gave her the same medication purchased abroad, she experienced relief within minutes.

The mother of three appealed to the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, to take swift action to investigate the matter.

She said, “I want to share a recent experience: I had food poisoning on a set and sent a staff member to buy Imodium from a well-known pharmacy chain in Nigeria.

“A medication I’ve used many times before. I took it for about three days but my symptoms persisted.
“Then my husband bought a tiny tablet of the same Imodium from abroad and after taking it, my stomach issues subsided within just five minutes.

“This isn’t the first time I have noticed a difference. So I have to ask: What exactly are we being sold in Nigeria? What’s going on with our drugs?

“This is a public health risk and NAFDAC must take it seriously. This is very dangerous.”