{"id":2664,"date":"2026-07-06T08:57:52","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T08:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerianreporters.com\/?p=2664"},"modified":"2026-07-06T08:57:52","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T08:57:52","slug":"police-arrest-suspect-after-man-dies-in-cross-river-stabbing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerianreporters.com\/NG\/2026\/07\/06\/police-arrest-suspect-after-man-dies-in-cross-river-stabbing\/","title":{"rendered":"Cross River Police Arrest Suspect After Man Dies Of Stabbing"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Cross River State Police Command has arrested a 42-year-old man, Michael Ndifon, over the alleged fatal stabbing of a 36-year-old resident, Charles Ekuma Eze, in Etayip Community, Ikom Local Government Area of the state.<\/p>\n

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The incident occurred on July 4 following an argument between the two men, according to the Police Public Relations Officer, ASP Sunday Eitokpah.<\/p>\n

In a statement issued on Monday, Eitokpah said the Ikom Police Division received a report of the incident at about 10:37 p.m. from community leaders Ndifon Ndifon and Felix Agbor.<\/p>\n

Preliminary investigations revealed that Ndifon allegedly stabbed Eze on the right side of his rib with a dagger during the altercation at about 5:46 p.m.<\/p>\n

The victim was rushed to Holy Family Hospital in Ikom before being referred to the Alex Ekwueme Federal University Teaching Hospital, Abakaliki, where he later died while receiving treatment.<\/p>\n

Police said the deceased’s body has been deposited in the hospital morgue for an autopsy.<\/p>\n

The suspect has been taken into custody, while the alleged murder weapon has been recovered and retained as evidence.<\/p>\n

Eitokpah said the case would be transferred to the State Criminal Investigation Department for a comprehensive investigation.<\/p>\n

He assured residents that the command would provide updates as investigations continue and urged the public to remain calm and allow the law to take its course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Cross River State Police Command has arrested a 42-year-old man, Michael Ndifon, over the alleged fatal stabbing of a 36-year-old resident, Charles Ekuma Eze, in Etayip Community, Ikom Local Government Area of the state. The incident occurred on July 4 following an argument between the two men, according to the Police Public Relations Officer, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerianreporters.com\/NG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerianreporters.com\/NG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerianreporters.com\/NG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerianreporters.com\/NG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerianreporters.com\/NG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerianreporters.com\/NG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerianreporters.com\/NG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerianreporters.com\/NG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerianreporters.com\/NG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}