Professor Campbell Shittu Momoh, formerly of the Department of Philosophy, University of Lagos, founded an organization called the National Association for Religious Tolerance, NARETO.
The father, who works as a guard with the Niger State Water and Sanitation (an agency of the government), insisted that he had left the matter to God and he would not seek vengeance.
A Muslim cleric in northern Nigeria reportedly defended the murder of a Christian woman over false accusations that she committed blasphemy, which is punishable by death under Islamic law.
The union made this known via a tweet on Wednesday, saying that the body is "still saddened by last week’s gruesome murder of Deborah Samuel in Sokoto."
It is not easy to understand why a desert storm can arise suddenly in an oasis. Sokoto State is a parched land hugging the Sahara Desert in a precarious embrace.