The Ekiti State University, Ado-Ekiti, on Tuesday wore a mournful look following the murder of? Mohammed Sani, a senior lecturer? in the Faculty of Law.
Sani, who holds? the? Otunba chieftaincy title of Isinbode, a community in the state, was reportedly murdered by yet-to-be identified killers in Maiduguri, Bornu.
The spokesman of? the university, Mr Bunmi Ajibade, told news men that the university community received the news with shock.
He said immediately the university confirmed the incident, the Vice Chancellor, Prof. Patrick Aina,? paid a condolence visit to the Dean of the Faculty of Law and the deceased’s? family.
?“Sani was a brilliant guy in the university and he always insisted that the school recruits brilliant brains to teach in the university.
“ It is unfortunate that the he died in such a gruesome way. We will miss him,’’ he said.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that Sani had lost property worth millions of naira to a fire outbreak at his residence in April.?
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