A senior naval officer undergoing a course at the Armed Forces Command and Staff College (AFCSC), Jaji, Kaduna State (name withheld), was gruesomely murdered on Saturday, 7 June 2025, near the Kawo flyover bridge while attempting to fix a flat tyre on his vehicle.
Military sources said the officer, a senior course student at AFCSC Jaji, had stopped at a bus stop close to the bridge on his way back to Jaji to change a deflated tyre when the tragic incident occurred.
According to eyewitness accounts, the officer was accosted by an unidentified assailant who demanded his mobile phone. When the officer resisted, he was stabbed in the chest with a locally made knife.
“The attacker appeared suddenly and asked for his phone. When the officer refused, he was stabbed in the chest,” a source said.
The assailant was, however, mobbed to death by the crowd that gathered at the scene.
The wounded officer was rushed to a nearby hospital but was pronounced dead on arrival. His body has since been deposited at the 44 Nigerian Army Reference Hospital, Kaduna mortuary.
In a further twist, a local vigilante, Suleiman Dahiru, who attempted to intervene during the altercation, was also stabbed in the hand by the attacker. The assailant, however, was overpowered by a crowd that gathered at the scene and was lynched.
“A local vigilante who witnessed the scene tried to help but was also stabbed. The assailant was eventually overpowered and killed on the spot by passersby,” another source confirmed.
Spokesman of the Armed Forces Command and Staff College, Lt. Col. Umar Adamu, confirmed the incident, noting that investigations are ongoing to determine the full details surrounding the officer’s death.
