However, he was soon released with the intervention of Ismail Bey Vlora and managed to arrange himself to teach Albanian at the Robert College.
[1] Nivica returned to Albania after independence and together with Mustafa Hilmi Leskoviku (1887–1915), also known as Muço Qulli, he funded the newspaper Populli ("The people") in Vlorë (1914) and shortly moved to Shkodër.
It was published in Shkodër, with strong nationalistic notes supporting the Committee for the National Defence of Kosovo.
He was killed in Shkodër by a gunman named Kolë Ashiku, Sejfi Vllamasi gives more insight on his assassination.
His brother Andon, a Catholic priest, notified Hysni Curri (a leader of the committee) that Ashiku was serious.
Though Curri assigned a guard to follow Nivica, Ashiku found him alone in one of the side streets of the town and shot him twice.