• Cleric survives knife attack in mosque, worshipers kill assailant, probe stokes controversy By Musa Ubandawaki, Sokoto Tension has gripped parts of Sokoto metropolis following the stabbing of controversial Islamic cleric, Sheikh Musa Ayuba Lukuwa, shortly after he conducted the Jumu’at prayer at his mosque in the Mabera area of the metropolis. The September 11 incident has since assumed a wider dimension, with the alleged attacker losing his life in mob action, the state government ordering the closure of the mosque as a crime scene, security agencies commencing investigations and an advisory committee of Islamic scholars being constituted to examine the wider religious tensions surroun… Source: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2026/09/killing-over-alleged-blasphemy-rocks-sokoto/