Unconfirmed report has filtered, according to Vanguard, that Prof. Emmanuel Amadi of the Department of Microbiology, Rivers State University, RSU, Port Harcourt, was assassinated on Wednesday at his home in Rumuolumeni, Port Harcourt.

Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, Rivers Command, Nnamdi Omoni, said that at the moment of filing this report, he heard of the "assault" on the Professor from informal sources.