Nigeria: Kogi Poly Shut Down Over Lecturer’s Murder

The management of Kogi State Polytechnic, Lokoja has closed down the institution indefinitely following the killing of a senior lecturer, Mr Nathaniel Abimaje by some students during an clash between students of the main ethnic groups in the state.

Mr Abimaje said to be a senior lecturer was allegedly stabbed to death by his students when trying to settle a dispute amongst them.

The polytechnic has being shut down indefinitely and students were asked to vacate their hostels as security operatives now patrol the institution.

The management of the school stated that the institution is shut down to prevent the crisis from degenerating.

Nigeria: Students stab lecturer to death

Yet to be identified students of Kogi State Polytechnic, Lokoja, on Thursday night, stabbed a senior lecturer of the school, Mr. Anthony Abimaje, to death  during a  riot that broke out on  campus.

An eye witness said the lecturer, who was on his way to pick his wife and daughter who sells provision at the school centre, came to the scene of the riot   when he was stabbed in the stomach by the students.

Investigation revealed that Amebija was a strict lecturer who was fond of refusing bribe  to award marks to students which apparently put him in the ‘black book’ of the warring students.

”On sighting him, the students forgot their quarrel, stopped his car, dragged him out, turned the fight on him and stabbed him repeatedly in the stomach and left him bleeding on the ground”, the eye witness said.

Amebija, who taught  research methodology and entrepreneurship before his death, was rushed to the hospital where he was pronounced dead.