Nigeria, July 14 -- Panic spread across the University of Jos (UNIJOS) community on Tuesday after the headless body of a middle-aged man was discovered on a farmland in the institution's premises.

A 300-level student of the university, Pius Atok, told Vanguard newspaper of the discovery.

"The body was found this morning on a farm around the university community. From what we gathered, the victim was neither a student nor a member of staff of the university," Mr Atok said.

A senior university official, who also spoke to Vanguard off the record because they were not authorised to comment publicly, said preliminary findings indicated that the deceased was a farmer known in the area for regularly cultivating crops on the farmland.

"The vi...