A 25-year-old man on Wednesday was stabbed to death at Mile One Diobu in the Port Harcourt City Local Government Area of Rivers State.
The victim, simply identified as Omemma was stabbed by members of a suspected rival cult organization, according to reports.
According to an eyewitness, the victim’s death was a retaliation for his gang’s earlier attack on the rival group.
The incident temporarily halted operations at the mile one market before everything returned to normal.
The Rivers State police command is yet to react to the incident.
In another report, the Ekiti State Police Command has reacted to reports that a police patrol van crushed an officer to death while chasing suspected Yahoo boys along Federal Polytechnic, Ado/Ijan Road.
The state police spokesperson, ASP Abutu Sunday, who denied the reports in a statement on Wednesday, described the report as ‘disgraceful, unfortunate, ungodly, inhuman and not in line with the practice of good journalism’