Nigeria: Terrorists Kill University Deputy Vice Chancellor On Zamfara Highway

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Mr Saidu was the Deputy Vice-Chancellor Research Innovation and Development at Usmanu Danfodiyo University Sokoto.

Terrorists, locally known as bandits, have killed Yusuf Saidu, a professor in the Department of Biochemistry and deputy vice-chancellor of Usmanu Danfodiyo University Sokoto.Mr Saidu and his driver were waylaid by the terrorists on a terror-ravaged highway linking Zamfara and Kaduna States, according to sources in the university.A lecturer in the university who spoke to PREMIUM TIMES in confidence said the don was attacked"on his way to Kaduna at a village called Kucheri after Tsafe town.

The terrorists, thereafter, went away with abandoned rifles and other items belonging to the police officers.

 

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