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Sales boy gatecrashes birthday party, killed
A sales boy, Akeem Tajudeen, has been stabbed to death in Ilaje Otumara, in the Iponri area of Lagos State, by some hoodlums.
PUNCH Metro learnt that 23-year-old Akeem was stabbed on Monday with a knife by one Abeeb, who allegedly claimed that Akeem came to a birthday party on Saturday in the neighbouring Olokodana area, when he was not invited.
Our correspondent gathered that Akeem, who hailed from Ilorin, Kwara State, was killed on Monday around 9pm.
It was gathered that the hoodlums trailed him to his house and “punished him for daring to gatecrash our party.”
Punch, October 10
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