Photo: The late Dr Funmilola Adefolalu, slaughtered.
FUT Minna female lecturer slaughtered in her residence
Dr Funmilola Adefolalu, a female lecturer at the Federal University of Technology (FUT) Minna, has been murdered by unknown assailants at her residence in Minna, Niger State.
The deceased lecturer was of the institution’s Department of Biochemistry, School of Life Sciences.
Confirming the incident, the chairperson of the institution’s Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Prof. Gbolahan Bolarin, said the body of the deceased was discovered on Sunday morning, when her church members traced her home after she was not seen during service.
She said that after forcing the door to her house open, she was found in her pool of blood with her throat slit and knives found beside her.
It was also gathered that, prior to her death, a female househelp was living with her but the late lecturer laid off the girl two days before she was murdered in cold blood.
The Police command in the state confirmed Adefolalu’s death in a statement by its spokesman, DSP Wasiu Abiodun on Monday in Minna.
Abiodun said the victim was killed in her residence at Gbaiko area of Minna on Sunday.
“On Oct. 29, at about 1000hrs, some friends of Dr Funmilola Adefolalu, a lecturer at “FUT Minna visited her residence in Gbaiko Area of Minna due to their inability to get her on 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 blood stain suspected to have been used to stab her by the unknown persons were recovered from the scene.
The spokesman said that the deceased’s remains were taken to the Ibrahim Babangida Specialist Hospital, Minna.
The PPRO said that the police have commenced investigation into the incident.
