Robbers shoot trader dead
A 37-year-old cosmetics trader, identified as Sunday Ukata has been shot dead by suspected armed robbers terrorising Mile 2-Badagry expressway, Lagos. The family of Ukata, who spoke to Vanguard on the development, yesterday, in Lagos, said the corpse was found with blood stains on the bridge around Dantata, near Akalija bus stop Sunday morning. The family said late Ukata was shot on his head on Saturday night while returning from his shop in Lagos Island. Ukata’s brother, Chukwudi, who spoke for the family, said his late brother left his shop that Saturday at 7p.m., and boarded a bus to Mile 2 and a bike to Tedi, near Ojo Barracks but never got home alive. According to Chukwudi, “I was attending 6a.m. mass on Sunday when my phone rang, it was my brother’s wife that called. When I picked, she said her husband didn’t come back home the previous night from the shop on Lagos Island. “She said she spoke to Ukata at 7.30p.m., and he sai...