A reporter with the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA), Benin, Mr. Lawrence Okojie, was professedly shot dead by shooters on Saturday night in Benin.
Okojie was said to have been murdered around Ogunola Junction, off Siluko Road.
The representative of the State Police Command, DSP Moses Nkombe, who affirmed the report, said one individual had been captured regarding the episode.
Late Okojie, who was dropped off by NTA staff transport at Ogunola Junction around 8: 00 p.m. on Saturday, had called his significant other on telephone and educated her that he was en route home.
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It was, nonetheless, a few hours after the fact that the spouse, after rehashed calls to his telephone with no reaction raised an alert that her better half, who should have arrived home couldn't be come to.
It was accumulated that some of his partners at NTA who were joined by some relatives on a hunt mission, found his carcass in a funeral home in Benin on Sunday night.
As at squeeze time, the conditions encompassing the passing of the journalist are as yet scrappy.
The police have, be that as it may, guaranteed to altogether examine the issue.
Okojie's demise conveys to five the quantity of columnists murdered in the state over the most recent six years.
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