{"id":76774,"date":"2025-10-16T13:56:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T13:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=76774"},"modified":"2025-10-16T13:56:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T13:56:14","slug":"customs-officer-found-dead-in-katsina-hotel-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/10\/16\/customs-officer-found-dead-in-katsina-hotel-room\/","title":{"rendered":"Customs Officer Found Dead in Katsina Hotel Room"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Huldah Shado<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A Customs officer, Assistant Superintendent of Customs (ASC), Lawal Tukur, was found dead in a Katsina hotel room on Wednesday, October 15.<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred at Murjani Hotel, where Tukur had checked in the previous night. Hotel staff discovered his lifeless body around 8:30 a.m. and alerted authorities.<\/p>\n<p>Sources said three women, Khadija Ali, 34, from Dutsin Maare; Aisha Lawal, 30, from Ingawa LGA; and Hafsat Yusuf, 22, from Kano State, were present in the room. Khadija and Aisha reportedly spent the night with Tukur, while Hafsat joined later.<\/p>\n<p>Empty sachets of unidentified substances were found in a wastebasket inside the room.<\/p>\n<p>The officer\u2019s body was taken to the Federal Medical Centre, Katsina, for confirmation of death before being moved to the mortuary for autopsy.<\/p>\n<p>The Nigeria Customs Service has been notified, and investigations are ongoing to determine the cause of death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Huldah Shado &nbsp; A Customs officer, Assistant Superintendent of Customs (ASC), Lawal Tukur, was found dead in a Katsina hotel room on Wednesday, October 15. The incident occurred at Murjani Hotel, where Tukur had checked in the previous night. Hotel staff discovered his lifeless body around 8:30 a.m. and alerted authorities. Sources said three [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":76778,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76774"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76779,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76774\/revisions\/76779"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}