Gunmen Kill Esteemed Polytechnic Lecturer, While His Driver Miraculously Escapes Death


The Head of the Science Department at the Niger State Polytechnic, Alhaji Abdulrashid Abdullahi, has been killed by three gunmen on the Zungeru-Tegina highway on January 30, 2014, Thursday.

According to NAN, Abdullahi was killed while on an official trip to Kaduna.

Abdullahi’s driver, Malam Hussaini Babangida, told a shocking story to the newsmen: Gunmen stopped us at an abandoned check-point 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 that nothing was taken away from them. The state’s Police Public Relations Officer, Mr Richard Oguche, confirmed the incident. He described the attack as a robbery attempt, saying that the police had begun investigation into the incident to bring the attackers to justice.

The state’s Commissioner for Tertiary Education, Dr Bashar Nuhu, also confirmed the incident.Nuhu described Abdullahi as a humble and hardworking lecturer. The Commissioner expressed his ministry’s condolences to Abdullahi’s family and the polytechnic community.

He prayed that Almighty Allah would grant him eternal bliss and his family the fortitude to bear the loss. I’m touch by his death, he added.

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