Taraba: Secondary school students assassinate teacher

By Hannah Nathan, Warri

Pandemonium as Bassy Sardauna, a secondary school teacher in Jalingo, was assassinated by students on Wednesday, according to the Nigerian Police Force’s Taraba State Command.

Congress learnt that the deceased teacher was a staff member of Model Secondary School in Jalingo, according to the command’s spokesperson, Abdullahi Usman, who confirmed the incident to journalists on Thursday.

According to him, the main suspect, an ex-student of the institution, planned with his friends to stab the teacher, who was later declared dead at the Federal Medical Centre, FMC, Jalingo, where he was receiving treatment.

The police spokesman confirmed that the command had started looking into the matter.