Dis­missed shop assist­ant allegedly stabs newly married employer to death in Gombe

Res­id­ents of Gombe State were thrown into mourn­ing after a dis­missed shop assist­ant allegedly st@bbed his newly married employer, Abdul’azeez Aliyu (pop­ularly known as Dan­malam), to d3ath.

The incid­ent occurred in the pres­ence of Aliyu’s mother on Saturday, January 17, 2026 at Federal Low Cost barely three weeks after his wed­ding, Daily Trust reported. 

Abdul’azeez mar­ried his wife, Jam­ila, on Decem­ber 26, 2025. n Federal Low Cost, Gombe.

The bride’s father and com­munity head of KumbiyaK­umbiya, Malam Ibrahim Garba Has­san Pan­tami, described the 27-year-old widow as dev­ast­ated.

He noted that Jam­ila had per­son­ally chosen Abdul’azeez as her hus­band before fate cut their union short.

“She was in deep pain when I met her. Because she is a mem­or­izer of the Qur’an, I advised her to hold firmly to her recit­a­tion for com­fort,” Pan­tami said, pray­ing that Allah for­gives the deceased and grants Jam­ila strength and a bet­ter future.

A fam­ily friend, Rabi’u Baushe (the Baushen Gombe), described Abdul’azeez as dis­cip­lined and hard­work­ing. 

He revealed that the deceased had recently com­pleted his uni­versity edu­ca­tion and secured a gov­ern­ment job in Abuja.

He said Abdul’azeez had just returned from doc­u­ment­a­tion in the nation’s cap­ital but did not live to resume duty.

Accord­ing to Baushe, Abdul’azeez ran a café busi­ness where he employed sev­eral youths and that due to issues with indis­cip­line, he had dis­missed a num­ber of them. 

One of the sacked work­ers reportedly returned to the shop on the day of the incid­ent.

Baushe explained that Abdul’azeez’s mother had asked her son to accom­pany her into the neigh­bor­hood. 

He stopped at his shop to drop off some doc­u­ments before they set out. 

“At the shop, the dis­missed boy appeared and was asked to leave. The boy ran into a nearby tailor’s shop, picked up a pair of scis­sors, and returned. As Abdul’azeez was about to step out, he was stabbed in the chest in front of his mother,” Baushe said.

Attempts to speak with the vic­tim’s mother were unsuc­cess­ful as she remains in a state of shock.

Many res­id­ents described Abdul’azeez as calm, respect­ful, and reli­gious, not­ing he was raised under the strict moral guid­ance of his father, a respec­ted Islamic scholar in the area.

Con­firm­ing the incid­ent, the spokesperson of the Gombe State Police Com­mand, SP Buhari Abdul­lahi, said the sus­pect, a 16-year-old boy, has been arres­ted.

He said the vic­tim was rushed to the Spe­cial­ist Hos­pital, where doc­tors con­firmed him d3ad.

“The sus­pect claimed he was demand­ing money owed to him by the vic­tim. An argu­ment broke out and he st@bbed Abdul’azeez in anger,” the PPRO said,  adding that an invest­ig­a­tion is ongo­ing.

Abdul’azeez was bur­ied on Sunday at the Bolari Juma’at Mosque cemetery, amid pray­ers from fam­ily mem­bers, friends, and sym­path­izers.