Gunmen believed to be affiliated with a cult group have fatally shot dead the manager of a hotel in Ilorin, the capital of Kwara State.
Naija News learnt that the assailants approached the manager at close range and shot him before brutally cutting his lifeless body with matchet, an act widely regarded as a cult-related assault.
The victim, identified as Anthony Balogun, was managing the hotel owned by his mother at the time of the tragic event.
This incident occurred around 8 p.m. on Thursday within the hotel premises situated in the Olunlade area of Ilorin. Reliable reports indicate that two gunmen entered the hotel and requested to see the manager.
Mistakenly believing they were potential customers, Balogun exited his room to meet them at the reception. It was then that the attackers lured him outside and shot him in the chest at close range.
Vanguard quoted sources within the hotel to have disclosed that the assailants assaulted the hotelier with a machete, inflicting…