Police confirm killing of FUT lecturer in Niger

The police command in Niger has confirmed the killing of Dr. Funmilola Adefolalu, a lecturer at the Federal University of Technology (FUT) in Minna, by a suspected assailant.

This is contained in a statement by the command`s spokesman, DSP Wasiu Abiodun, on Monday in Minna.

Abiodun said the victim was killed in her residence in the Gbaiko area of Minna on Sunday.

“On Oct. 29, at about 1000 hrs, some friends of Dr. Funmilola Adefolalu, a lecturer at “FUT Minna, visited her residence in the Gbaiko Area of Minna due to their inability to get her on the phone.

"Unfortunately, on getting to the house, the visitors met her lying in a pool of her own blood with marks of injury on her body, he said.

He said that two knives with bloodstains suspected to have been used to stab her by unknown persons were recovered from the scene.

The spokesman said that the body was taken to the Ibrahim Babangida Specialist Hospital in Minna, where she was confirmed dead.

He said that the police have commenced an investigation into the incident.