{"id":231589,"date":"2026-04-27T15:26:01","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T13:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-family-counters-armys-account-alleges-unlawful-killing-of-corps-member-in-abuja\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T15:26:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T13:26:01","slug":"nigeria-family-counters-armys-account-alleges-unlawful-killing-of-corps-member-in-abuja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-family-counters-armys-account-alleges-unlawful-killing-of-corps-member-in-abuja\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Family Counters Army&#8217;s Account, Alleges Unlawful Killing of Corps Member in Abuja"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">The family said the Nigerian Army&#8217;s narrative describing an exchange of gunfire during a pursuit of armed robbers was &#8220;false, misleading, and an affront to the memory of an innocent young man.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"60\">The family of Abdulsamad Jamiu, a 24-year-old <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bing.com\/ck\/a?!&amp;&amp;p=a5a949fea85cb611de3e0283d36d19da4f927d213bb8fb912340eff09c5a390cJmltdHM9MTc3NzI0ODAwMA&amp;ptn=3&amp;ver=2&amp;hsh=4&amp;fclid=307d5679-e901-601d-016f-40dce81361e8&amp;psq=National+Youth+Service+Corp&amp;u=a1aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnlzYy5nb3Yubmcv\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Youth Service Corps<\/a><\/strong> (NYSC) member, has issued a detailed rebuttal to the Nigerian Army&#8217;s account of the events that led to his death in the early hours of 25 April in Dei-Dei, Abuja, insisting he was unlawfully killed inside his home and not caught in a&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604270631.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The family said the Nigerian Army&#8217;s narrative describing an exchange of gunfire during a pursuit of armed robbers was &#8220;false, misleading, and an affront to the memory of an innocent young man.&#8221; The family of Abdulsamad Jamiu, a 24-year-old National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) member, has issued a detailed rebuttal to the Nigerian Army&#8217;s account [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":231590,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[347,4313,258,256,20138,9427,13450,53114,5203,7805,6483,257,4687,393,254,11909],"class_list":["post-231589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-abuja","tag-account","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-alleges","tag-armys","tag-corps","tag-counters","tag-family","tag-killing","tag-member","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-unlawful"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}