A Brazil returnee has reportedly been shot dead by unknown assailants, days after he came back to Nigeria for the Christmas holiday.

According to reports, the deceased, simply identified as Ndubuisi, has been in Brazil for a long time and decided to come back home to celebrate the 2018 Christmas in his village in Anambra State.

It was gathered the Nigerian man was killed after returning home from Brazil, over an alleged drug deal that went wrong.

The deceased was also accused of duping people from the drug deals they make.

Though his corpse has been deposited in an undisclosed mortuary, his murder was said not to be a case of robbery as his SUV was abandoned by the unknown assailants.