Nigerian surgeon shot dead by gunmen on auto bike

Nigerian professor of urology, Hyacinth Nong Mbibu has been shot dead by gunmen on motor-cycle, in Zaria, Kaduna state.

Mbibu, from Takum in Taraba state has been a visiting urologist at the Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital, Shika, Zaria, since 2008.

According to reports, he was on his way home Thursday night after attending to patients at the hospital when the gunmen, who were on a motorcycle, attacked him.

They also shot a nurse who was in his car but she survived the murder attempt. She was immediately rushed to the hospital.The incident happpend at about 8 p.m Premium Times reported.

Mbibu except for a year’s stint at Ibrahim Babangida Hospita in Minna, had spent the past 20 years at ABU’s urology department.