Gunmen kill popular Ibadan radio presenter

An Ibadan-based radio presenter has been killed by unknown assailants.

Identified as Titus Badejo, the police spokesman for the command, Adewale Osifeso, said the deceased worked with Naija 102.7FM prior to his demise.

He was killed outside Club 407 in the Oluyole area of Ibadan at about 11:30 pm on Saturday, June 19, Premium Times reports.

The police said: “At about 0730hrs, Sunday 20th June 2021, One Damilola Afolabi ‘m’, Manager, at Club 407, Oluyole Ibadan, reported at the Oluyole Divisional Police Headquarters that on Saturday, 19[th] June 2021, one Titus Badejo, Journalist and freelance disc jockey with the club, was shot outside the club’s premises by unknown assailants.

“However, comprehensive investigations are in top gear to unravel circumstances surrounding the incident and to apprehend the assailants. Verifiable updates would be provided soonest,” Osifeso said, in the text."

“When he was leaving with his friends in his car around 11:30 pm, two masked men on a motorcycle suddenly stopped his car, wielding a gun and asked all of them to lie down,” the source was quoted as saying.

He was the only one shot by the gunmen, who left immediately without taking anything or touching the other occupants of the car.”