Gunmen Kill Niger Poly Lecturer

The Head of the Science Department at the Niger State Polytechnic, Alhaji Abdulrashid Abdullahi, was on Thursday killed by three gunmen on the Zungeru-Tegina highway.

The News Agency of Nigeria learnt in Minna that Abdullahi was killed while on an official trip to Kaduna.

According to Abdullahi’s driver, Malam Hussaini Babangida, the gunmen stopped them at an abandoned checkpoint after the Zungeru Bridge.

“I stopped because I thought they were security men but they immediately went for Abdullahi’s door with a machete.

“I tried to drive away but I heard the lecturer shout, I have been shot as they could not open his door. I drove the vehicle very fast back to Zungeru, where the lecturer was pronounced dead at a hospital,” he said.

He said nothing was taken away from them.

“It is sad that they killed my cousin for undisclosed reasons,” Babangida said

The state’s Police Public Relations Officer, Mr Richard Oguche, confirmed the incident.