{"id":167605,"date":"2025-06-28T11:35:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T10:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/borno-soldier-stabs-ex-military-man-to-death-in-late-night-dispute"},"modified":"2025-06-28T11:35:00","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T10:35:00","slug":"borno-soldier-stabs-ex-military-man-to-death-in-late-night-dispute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/borno-soldier-stabs-ex-military-man-to-death-in-late-night-dispute","title":{"rendered":"Borno: Soldier stabs ex-military man to death in late-night dispute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>A serving soldier has been arrested after allegedly stabbing a dismissed military man to death during a late-night argument in Maiduguri, Borno State.<\/p>\n<p>Security analyst, Zagazola Makama, disclosed this in a post on X on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>He said the incident happened around 2:00 a.m. on Thursday, in the Kasuwan Fara area of the city.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect, a Lance Corporal serving with the Nigerian Army\u2019s 7 Division, reportedly got into a heated argument with the victim, Musa Adamu, who was a former soldier.<\/p>\n<p>During the fight, the Lance Corporal allegedly stabbed Musa in the chest with a jackknife.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe victim was rushed to the Borno State Specialist Hospital but was confirmed dead by doctors. His body has been taken to the hospital morgue for autopsy,\u201d Makama wrote.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, a senior army officer later handed the suspect over to the police on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The case has been transferred to the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID) for a full investigation and possible court action.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. A serving soldier has been arrested after allegedly stabbing a dismissed military man to death during a late-night argument in Maiduguri, Borno State. Security analyst, Zagazola Makama, disclosed this in a post on X on Saturday. He said the incident happened around 2:00 a.m. on Thursday, in the Kasuwan Fara area of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":167604,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,30],"tags":[1570,2140,254],"class_list":["post-167605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Borno: Soldier stabs ex-military man to death in late-night dispute - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/borno-soldier-stabs-ex-military-man-to-death-in-late-night-dispute\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Borno: Soldier stabs ex-military man to death in late-night dispute\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. 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