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Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Taraba Flood: 5 Killed, 50 Declared Missing

A total of five person have been confirmed dead and more than 50 persons declared missing following torrential rains and flooding in Lau, Karim-Lamido and Gassol Local Government of Taraba. A lecturer at the Faculty of Law, Ekiti State University, Ado-Ekiti, Mr. Mohammed Sani, has been killed in Maiduguri by a group ofgunmen yet to be identified. Mr Sani was said to have killed athis residence on Monday. The late lecturer was said to have travelled to the Law School campus in Abuja and was said to have decided to visit Borno State, his state of origin,when hewas attacked and killed. Mr sani was said to be pursuing his PhD programme and was almost completing it when the sad incident happened. The circumstances surrounding his killing were still sketchy as at press time. Some of the studentsof the university claimed that Sani was killed by the Boko Haram sect but the group had not claimed responsibility for thekilling. Sani, who was said to have beenposted to Ekiti State for the compulsory one year service by the National Youth Service Corps,was said to have spent more than a decade in the state. He was a Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Law until he was killed. He was a former Financial Secretary of the Academic Staff Union of Universities at EKSU, formerly known as UNAD. The Deputy Registrar, Information, Mr. Olubunmi Ajibade, confirmed the killing to our correspondent on the telephone on Tuesday. EKSU was thrown into mourningon Tuesday as the news of the gruesome killing of the lecturer filtered in. Ajibade said, “This development has thrown the university community into mourning; we are all mourning him. Sani was avery good person. He was one ofthe persons we used to show case that our university is open to all in term of employment. We have Hausa and Ibo working here and everybody is welcomed, provided you are qualified. We will sorely miss him.” He said the Vice Chancellor. Prof. Oladipupo Aina, led other officials of the university to the residence of the deceased in Ado-Ekiti to commiserate with his family. Also, a former Chairman of Academic Staff Union of Universities, Ilorin Zone, Prof. Eddy Olanipekun, described the late lecturer as a pleasant gentle man.

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