Yohanna Bzegu, a lecturer in Adamawa State Polytechnic, Yola, was in the early hours of Thursday shot dead by yet-to-be identified gunmen.<\/p>\n
Bzegu, a lecturer with the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Adamawa State Polytechnic, Yola, was shot in his residence, at Bajabure, behind Anglican Junior Seminary, a satellite town on the outskirts of Yola, the State capital.<\/p>\n
According to a family source, the assailants shot the deceased on the chest and watched him die.<\/p>\n
Reports show that his wife watched helplessly when they (assailants) broke into the house.<\/p>\n
According to the source, the attackers gained entrance into the late lecturer\u2019s house around 3am, adding that it is the fifth attempt by the assailants on his residence.<\/p>\n
He explained, \u201cThey fired shots through the window; later they broke the door and shot him in the chest until they confirmed he was dead.\u201d<\/p>\n
Suleiman Nguroje, the spokesperson for the State Police Command, while confirming the incident, said that Sikiru Akande, the commissioner of Police, directed for immediate investigation with a view to apprehending the culprits.<\/p>\n
He gave the order when he visited the residence of the deceased.<\/p>\n
Not long ago, suspected gunmen attacked the residence of Daniel Umaru, a pastor with Ekklesiyya Yan\u2019uwa, resulting in the death of the cleric\u2019s two teenage sons.<\/p>\n
While Umaru survived, the attackers went away with his 13-year-old daughter.<\/p>\n
The teenage daughter, however, had since been freed after the payment of an undisclosed amount as ransom to the bandits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Yohanna Bzegu, a lecturer in Adamawa State Polytechnic, Yola, was in the early hours of Thursday shot dead by yet-to-be identified gunmen. Bzegu, a lecturer with the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Adamawa State Polytechnic, Yola, was shot in his residence, at Bajabure, behind Anglican Junior Seminary, a satellite town on the outskirts of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":456125,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3773,3],"tags":[257,4166],"class_list":["post-456124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-news","tag-adamawa","tag-gunmen"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=456124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/456125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=456124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=456124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=456124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}