/ 29 July 1999

FORMER NIGERIAN MINISTER SHOT

NIGERIAN former sports and transport minister Anthony Ikazoboh was shot dead in front of his wife by four gunmen in a suspected assassination, a top police spokesman said on Thursday. Lagos State Police Commissioner Sunday Aghedo told reporters the retired air commodore was shot on Tuesday night as he returned to his home in a beachside district of Lagos from attending church. Ikazoboh was shot by the gunmen who appeared to have followed him home. Aghedo gave the number of a van which police suspected the gunmen had used. “We shall leave no stone unturned until we get these killers. From all indications this is an assassination,” he said.