Nigeria, May 4 -- The Kano State government has said an object that hit a journalist at the Government House premises Friday evening was not a stray bullet.

The governor's spokesperson, Sanusi Bature, in a statement to reporters, described the report of a gunshot as "one-sided and false."

Naziru Ya'u, attached to the governor's press crew, was hit in the arm by an object which a news platform reported to be a stray bullet.

In the incident, which occurred at about 6 p.m. On Friday, Mr Ya'u, a staffer of the state-owned Abubakar Rimi Television (ARTV), said he felt a sharp pain in his arm.

It was later discovered at the Government House Clinic that he had been hit by a stray bullet, according to Solace Base, a Kano-based online newspape...