₦airaland Forum

The body of a man was on Sunday evening found floating in a Lagoon around Apapa behind Creek Road. The body of the man was found at the bank of the lagoon in an extremely and badly decomposed state.

According to initial reports, no one at the moment knows the cause of death as the unidentified body is still at the river bank and it’s yet to be recovered from the lagoon by officials of the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency LASEMA, Lagos State Waterways Authority (LASWA) Marine Police and probably the State Environmental Monitoring Unit (SEHMU).

At least 29 people have been arrested over the killing of a man at Masaka in the Karu Local Government Area of Nasarawa State.

The News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, reports that the victim, whose name was given simply as Ibrahim, was said to have met his fate on June 15 during a cult clash.

The spokesman of the Nasarawa State Police Command, Samaila Usman, who confirmed the development, explained that two young men were earlier brought to the Masaka Police Station at about 11:30 p.m. on June 13 with various degrees of injuries.

He said that investigations revealed that the injuries were sustained during a cult clash at Angwan Jaba community in Masaka.

“A combined team of police officers were immediately dispatched to the area to bring the situation under control.

“But our men met stiff resistance from the cult members, numbering about 50.

“We were, however, able to disperse them while five of them were arrested at the scene and 24 others arrested later at different locations in the area,” he said.

Mr Usman said that one Hassan later reported at the Masaka Police Station that his cousin, named Ibrahim, was macheted to death at Angwan Tiv.

“So, the police immediately mobilised to the place and collected the corpse but the parents refused us taking the corpse to the mortuary.

“There are concentrations of organised cult groups in Angwa Tiv and Angwa Jaba in Karu but we are on top of the situation.

“That is why we have launched ‘Operation Fish Out’ and created anti-cultism units to fight cultism in Nasarawa State,” he added.

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