Dr. (Mrs.) Adefolalu Funmilola Sherifat, a female lecturer from the Department of Biochemistry at the Federal University of Technology (FUT), Minna, Niger State, was discovered dead in her residence in the Gbaiko Area of the town, with herthroat was allegedly slit.
The branch chairman of the Academic Staff Union of University (ASUU) at FUTMinna, Prof. Gbolahan Abolarin, confirmed this unsettling incident.
According to Prof. Abolarin, the body of the slain female lecturer was said to have been discovered on Sunday morning when her church members traced her to her house after failing to show up at Sunday Church service.
Local residents reported that, upon entering her residence, they found the lifeless body of the lecturer, lying in a pool of her own blood. Beside her were knives that had allegedly been used in the incident.
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The Nigerian Police, Niger State Command, were said to have been at the scene of the incident and later moved the body to the mortuary section of a public hospital in Minna for autopsy report.
Reacting to the incident in a brief interview with newsmen on Sunday, the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) attached to the Command, DSP Wasiu Abiodun, told newsmen that further information about the incident would be released to the general public as soon as the Police investigation into the matter was concluded.
Tragically, it was also revealed by sources that the late lecturer’s husband, who was a professor at the same institution, had previously passed away.
Until her untimely death, Dr. Sherifat was reportedly living with a female house help, whom she had dismissed just the previous Friday.