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In the Paso village market in the Gwagwalada Area Council of the FCT, a man accused of stealing a motorbike was lynched on Saturday.Israel Musa, a witness, reported that the event took place at about 9 o'clock at night when a man named Kabiru parked his motorbike and walked inside to retrieve something.According to him, "the motorcycle thief was trailing the owner of the motorcycle right from the University Abuja Teaching Hospital's gate until he arrived in Paso and parked his motorcycle to rush into his house to pick something.""The suspect was unfortunate because two neighbours watching TV in front of their homes spotted him trying to steal the bike and called the police. He got off the motorbike and ran, but people chased him down and attacked him with rocks and logs until he collapsed.

A commissioner with the National Population Commission (NPC), Mr Joseph Shazin Kwali, has said the postponement of the 2023 house census exercise by the immediate past administration has given the commission the opportunity to further prefect its processes and system for conduct of the first ever digital census in the country. 

According to him, the commission has carried out all the preparatory activities towards the census such as Enumeration Area Demarcation (EAD) conduct of pre -test and trial census, recruitment and training of census field staff, procurement and configuration of personal digital assistant among others.

He called on media organizations on the need to continue to sensitize the public of the significance of the house census exercise, even as he informed the commission that the FCT permanent secretary, Adesola Olusade has pledged his support to the commission anytime the exercise will commence in the FCT.

The current council chairman, Alhaji Adamu Mustapha, has been suspended by the All Progressives Congress (APC) branch of the Gwagwalada Area Council due to anti-party actions. According to City News, there has been a cold war between the FCT's party leadership and the council's current chairman. The suspension of the Gwagwalada chairman was announced in a letter to the local government council, FCTA, the North Central chapter of the party, as well as the party's national secretary. The letter was signed by the Dobi Ward APC Chairman, Jibrin Gado, and Secretary, Aliyu Jibrin.

An individual discovered with the dead body of his friend's child has been rescued by police officers from the Ilemba-Hausa Division of the Lagos State Police Command.The event occurred on Friday, when a guy who was accompanying a friend to go and bury his dead child was almost lynched when some neighbours noticed the corpse with him, according to SP Benjamin Hundeyin, the command's spokesman, who confirmed the story."He claimed he was hired by the parents to assist with the child's burial and that he was on his way to do so when he was confronted by several locals who believed he had malicious intentions.The man's story was corroborated by the parents of the deceased child, who were invited to the station.