Sokoto govt shuts mosque, orders probe into attack

By Musa Ubandawaki, SokotoSOKOTO — The Sokoto State Government has ordered the immediate closure of Sheikh Musa Ayuba Lukuwa Jumu’at Mosque in the Mabera area of Sokoto metropolis following an alleged attack on the cleric shortly after Friday prayers.The government also ordered a full-scale investigation into the attack and the subsequent killing of the suspected assailant, warning that no individual or group should take the law into its own hands under any religious pretext.The dir