A female lecturer with the Department of Biochemistry, School of Life Sciences, Federal University of Technology(FUT), Minna in Niger State, Dr. (Mrs) Adefolalu Funmilola Sherifat, has been found dead in her residence in the Gbaiko Area of the town, with her throat allegedly slit. The branch chairman of the Academic Staff Union of University (ASUU) in FUTMinna, Prof. Gbolahan Abolarin, confirmed the incident to in a telephone conversation on Sunday evening. Prof. Abolarin said the body of the slain female lecturer was said to have been discovered on Sunday morning when her church members traced her to her house after failing to show up at Sunday Church service. According to some residents of her community, after forcing the door to her house open, the lecturer was found in a pool of her own blood, with her throat slit and knives found beside her. The Nigerian Police, Niger State Command, were said to have been at the scene of the incident and later moved the body to the mortuary section of a public hospital in Minna for autopsy report.