UI Professor, Ajewole Assassinated In Ibadan, Oyo State

A Professor of Social and Environmental Forestry at the University of Ibadan, Prof. Opeyemi Ajewole has been reportedly killed by unknown gunmen in Ibadan, the Oyo state capital.

INDEPENDENT Newspaper gathered Ajewole was said to have been killed on his way home last night.

A Daily Independent reporter gathered that the lecturer from the institution who confirmed the incident said the deceased was killed by a suspected hired killer at his residence in Ibadan.

“It is true. He was killed last night while returning home. They shot him and took his car. He was my friend. I just confirmed from a member of his Faculty now,” the source said.