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Security sources say the Nigerian Army and Department of State Services, working with Amotekun, killed a senior Islamic State West Africa Province leader during an intelligence-led operation in Owo forest, Ondo State.

The Speaker of the Zamfara State House of Assembly, Bilyaminu Ismail Moriki, says the eight lawmakers who recently announced their defection from the All Progressives Congress (APC) had been suspended from the Assembly since February 2024.