Man shot dead in Lagos over business dispute

A male adult identified simply as Golden has been confirmed dead after he was shot by unknown assailants in the Igando area of Lagos State.

PidomNigeria Metro learnt from a police source on Thursday that the incident occurred on Tuesday in the Fatoki area of the community.

It was gathered that the assailants, numbering about two, rode into the community on a motorcycle in search of the deceased.

The assailants thereafter located him in the area and allegedly shot him in the process.

“We got a report that someone was shot on Fatoki Street, and when our men were deployed to the scene, the deceased was found lying lifeless in a pool of blood. He was taken to the hospital, where he was confirmed dead and later taken to the morgue,” the source disclosed.

The police, however, could not disclose the cause of the incident, noting that an investigation was ongoing.

Meanwhile, an anti-cultism advocacy platform, Confra Naija, in a post on Thursday, noted that the incident was business-related.

It wrote, “The victim in that incident was identified as Golden. Although two cult groups (Aye and Vikings) were mentioned in this incident, sources confirmed that the attack was not cult-related but rather a case of a business dispute involving Yahoo money.”

The platform added that Golden was sitting outside before the attackers entered the street on a motorcycle and shot him in the head.

The spokesperson for the Lagos State Police Command, Abimbola Adebisi, was unreachable as calls to her telephone lines went unanswered. A text message sent to her had yet to be replied to by the time this report was filed.

The incident occurred barely five days after a shawarma vendor identified simply as Andy was shot dead by suspected cultists in the Sangotedo area of Lagos State.