Lagos Island boils as Assassins Kill NURTW member

*Lagos Island Boils As Assassins Kill NURTW Member*

There was palpable tension at Idumota Area of Lagos Island, Lagos, Southwest Nigeria following the alleged assassination of the principal assistant to one of the National Union of Road Transport Workers chairmen in the area. The assassin is identified simply as Alnold Swagger by suspected assassins in the early hour of Tuesday over a power tussle.

Though details of the incident were sketchy as of the time of filling this reports, sources told PM News that the target of the suspected assassins was a Chairman in the area identified simply as KP. The source further said that while Alnold Swagger died on the spot, two others with him inside the car sustained serious injuries and were quickly rushed to the hospital where doctors were battling to save their lives.

The source said that the assassins numbering about four trailed the car belonging to the chairman of Idumota, Lagos at about 1.30am in their motorcycles, blocked the car and opened fire on the occupants thinking that the chairman, their target drove the car, but unknown to them that it was his principal assistant who drove the car.