Another Reporter Found Shot in Shi’ite, Police Clash

Malik Yahya/

As the media industry mourn the Channels TV reporter shot to death while covering the Shi’ite and police clash on Monday, another journalist hit by stray bullet is still battling for life at a hospital in Abuja.

Twenty-seven-year-old Suleiman Aliyu, a reporter with LEADERSHIP Newspaper Group Limited, is a member of the National Youths Service Corps (NYSC) like the Channels TV reporter, Precious Owolabi.

Aliyu, who is serving in the Hausa section of the media house, LEADERSHIP AYAU is on admission at the Trauma Centre, National Hospital Abuja following gunshot injuries he sustained during the protest by Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) members.

He was allegedly on his way home when he was hit by stray bullet from the police at Federal Secretariat, Abuja and was rushed to the hospital.

He said, ‘’I was on my way home in a taxi after close of work when I got hit by a stray bullet which brushed through my chest.

“I did not even know that I was shot until I started feeling heavy on my chest. Then I was rushed to the hospital.”

Aliyu, with State Code No: FC/19A/4188 and call Up No: NYSC/KDU/2019/008025, graduated from Mathematics department of Kaduna State University.

He hails from Kaduna State.

He was in Plateau State NYSC orientation camp and was later relocated to Abuja.

NYSC posted him to LEADERSHIP Newspaper as his place of primary assignment where he is engaged as a corps member working at the online section of the Hausa department.

He reported at his place of primary assignment in April.

Earlier, the Director General, NYSC, Brig Gen. Shuibu Ibrahim said that the security of corps members remained paramount to the scheme and would not be compromised.

The DG spoke when he visited the victim at the National Hospital.

Top management staff of LEADERSHIP group also paid him a visit.