How Arise News journalist Somtochukwu Maduagwu was killed during armed robbery – Police witness

Douglas Ishaku, an assistant superintendent of police (ASP) who is the fourth prosecution witness in the trial of 11 suspects linked to the attack, also said one of the robbers shot Barnabas Danlami, a security guard at the residence, to death during the armed robbery operation.

A police investigator told the FCT High Court in Jabi, Abuja, on Tuesday that Arise News Television’s journalist Somtochukwu Maduagwu, who was killed during an armed robbery operation about a year ago, was pushed over a two-storey building by a member of the robbery gang.” Mr Ishaku’s testimony that one of the defendants pushed Ms Maduagwu is a new development, and subsequent court proceedings may reveal the identity of the alleged suspect who committed the crime Ms Maduagwu, a face of Arise TV Until her death, 29-year-old Ms Maduagwu, a lawyer, was regular face on Arise Television, where she served as a news anchor, presenting news broadcasts for the network.