On thursday afternoon, some unknown gunmen attacked and shot a lecturer who was said to be The Head of the Science Department at the Niger State Polytechnic, Alhaji Abdulrashid Abdullahi 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 officers 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.
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