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Africa-Press – Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Palpable tension has gripped Benue State Polytechnic Community in Ugbokolo, Okpokwu Local Government Area of the State as gunmen suspected to be assassins, gunned down a lecturer in the school, Mr Adah Echobu Chris.<\/p>\n

DAILY POST gathered that the incident occured on Sunday night when the armed men attacked the lecturer along Eke and Ugbokolo expressway and opened fire on him.<\/p>\n

A lecturer of the school who spoke to DAILY POST, lamented that Ugbokolo is no longer safe for them, stressing that bloodthirsty men have been on a rampage in the community recently.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese faceless human beings have been attacking innocent people in this place. At times, it is a clash between rival cult groups and some times, you just don\u2019t know who is who. This is sad. Mr Adah was a very popular lecturer\u201d, he lamented.<\/p>\n

The State Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Catherine Anene could not take her calls and has not responded to text messages forwarded to her as of press time.<\/p>\n

Mr Adah, popularly known as Bull, was a senior lecturer at the department of Business Management and was also a PhD student at the Federal University of Agriculture, Makurdi, Benue State prior to his death.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Nigeria. Palpable tension has gripped Benue State Polytechnic Community in Ugbokolo, Okpokwu Local Government Area of the State as gunmen suspected to be assassins, gunned down a lecturer in the school, Mr Adah Echobu Chris. DAILY POST gathered that the incident occured on Sunday night when the armed men attacked the lecturer along […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":54750,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,28,14,26],"tags":[1570,2140,331,254],"class_list":["post-54751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-policy","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-benue","tag-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"\nTension in Benue as suspected assassins gun down lecturer - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Palpable tension has gripped Benue State Polytechnic Community in Ugbokolo, Okpokwu Local Government Area of the State a ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tension-in-benue-as-suspected-assassins-gun-down-lecturer\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Tension in Benue as suspected assassins gun down lecturer\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Palpable tension has gripped Benue State Polytechnic Community in Ugbokolo, Okpokwu Local Government Area of the State a ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tension-in-benue-as-suspected-assassins-gun-down-lecturer\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-12-06T16:32:54+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-12-06T16:35:06+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/12\/img-61ae3b97803b5.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"919\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tension-in-benue-as-suspected-assassins-gun-down-lecturer#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tension-in-benue-as-suspected-assassins-gun-down-lecturer\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Tension in Benue as suspected assassins gun down lecturer\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-12-06T16:32:54+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-12-06T16:35:06+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tension-in-benue-as-suspected-assassins-gun-down-lecturer\"},\"wordCount\":222,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tension-in-benue-as-suspected-assassins-gun-down-lecturer#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/12\/img-61ae3b97803b5.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"Benue\",\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"Policy\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tension-in-benue-as-suspected-assassins-gun-down-lecturer#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tension-in-benue-as-suspected-assassins-gun-down-lecturer\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tension-in-benue-as-suspected-assassins-gun-down-lecturer\",\"name\":\"Tension in Benue as suspected assassins gun down lecturer - 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