Minna — The Niger State Government over the weekend disclosed it has confiscated over 200 hectares of land acquired by a suspected Islamic radical sect which has earlier been dislodged by a combined security operatives in the Lapai Local Government Area of the state.
The recent clampdown is coming on the heels of the sects' defiance against the administration's suspicion and rejection due to their strange teaching for the second time in two months when their leader was arrested for among others, claiming to be the new Prophet Mohammed.
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