- As Kidnappers Demand N50m, N10 for Professor, students respectively
A former Deputy Vice Chancellor of the University of Ibadan, Professor Adigun Agbaje is one of those kidnapped along the Lagos-Ibadan highway on Friday.
Agbaje, according to findings was kidnapped with two other students.
Their kidnappers have demanded N50m for the release of the professor of Political Science, they are demanding N10m each for the release of the two students who are said to be of the Moshood Abiola Polytechnic Abeokuta.
It was also learnt that a policeman was killed in the shootout that ensued between the kidnappers and men of the Oyo State police command attached to the Tollgate area who were first drafted after sporadic gunshots were heard near the Dominion University some Kilometers away from Ibadan.
Eye witnesses had claimed that they only saw abandoned vehicles with their doors opened without knowing who the owners were.
The command spokesman in Oyo, Adewale Osifeso was quoted in a statement saying that a police officer was killed while another one was critically injured during the attack.
NPO Reports learnt authoritatively Saturday evening that family members and members of the university community were already making efforts to see how to secure freedom of the don.
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According to the website of the Institute of Cultural Studies Adigun Agbaje has been Professor of Political Science at the University of Ibadan since 1998. He was Dean, Faculty of the Social Sciences (2003-2005) and Deputy Vice-Chancellor in charge of academic matters (2006-2010) at the same University. He started his teaching career at the University as Assistant Lecturer in 1984 and has since then been teaching Research Methods at the undergraduate and graduate levels. He has also taught Research Methods to senior military, security and paramilitary officers at the National War (later, Defence) College of Nigeria, Abuja (2001-2013) and the Institute of Strategic Studies, Bwari, Nigeria (2012). He is the author of The Nigerian Press, Hegemony and the Social Construction of Legitimacy, 1960-1983 (1992) and is co-editor of seven books, among others.