Sun Newspaper Journalist shot in Lokoja

A journalist with The Sun Newspaper, Emmanuel Adeyemi, has been shot.

Adeyemi was on his way to the Nigerian Union of Journalists secretariat when he was shot in Lokoja.

The drive-by shooters also shot another passerby, whose identity could not be immediately ascertained.

The passerby was said to have just arrived from Benue and caught up in the middle of the mayhem.

The gunshots in Lokoja, the Kogi state capital followed the resumption of looting in another warehouse in zone 8 area.

A similar incident was recorded overnight when the ADP warehouse was invaded and bags of fertilizer carted away.

Reports say heavy gunshots rent the air while all shops along Murtala Mohammed way, Lokoja are closed, with people scampering to safety.

When contacted, the police public relations officer, William Aya, said the gunshots were from hoodlums who were scaring people away to enable them to loot.