Lawrence Okojie a reporter with the Nigerian Television Authority, Benin, was allegedly shot dead by gunmen in Benin City, Edo State.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Okojie was reported to have been killed around Ogunola Junction, off Siluko Road.
The spokesman of the State Police Command, DSP Moses Nkombe, who confirmed the report, said one person had been arrested in connection with the incident.
The late Okojie, who was dropped off by NTA staff bus at Ogunola Junction around 8pm on Saturday, had called his wife on phone and informed her that he was on his way home.
It was, however, several hours later that the wife, after repeated calls to his phone without any response, raised the alarm that her husband, who was supposed to have arrived home, could not be reached.
It was gathered that some of his colleagues at NTA joined by some family members on a search mission, discovered his corpse in a morgue in Benin on Sunday night.
The police have, however, promised to thoroughly investigate the matter.
As Okojie’s death brings to five the number of journalists killed in the state in the last six years.
Source: NAN.
