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Update: Kogi University lecturer, four others arrested over alleged Boko Haram membership Nnenna Ibeh

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Some of the suspects admitted to undergoing terrorists trainings in Borno. The Department of State Security Service, SSS , on Wednesday paraded a lecturer of the Kogi State University, Ayingba , Muhammad Nazeef, for allegedly being a member of a Boko Haram cell. Mr. Nazeef, said to be a lecturer in the Department for Islamic Studies, was paraded alongside four others, at the SSS headquarters in Abuja. The lecturer was said to be the spiritual leader of the cell. The SSS spokesperson, Marilyn Ogar, who briefed journalists at the commission’s headquarters, said the suspects were arrested at a mosque in Zuba, Abuja. She said the Boko Haram cell was uncovered in Igala land of Kogi State. According to the SSS, Mr. Nazeef, 44, who hails from Idah, Kogi State, completed his secondary education at El-Kanemi College, Maiduguri before he graduated from the Islamic University of Medina, Saudi Arabia. Following completion of his National Youth Service Corp in