The Adamawa State Police Command has confirmed the abduction of a former Commissioner for Housing and Urban Planning in the State, Abubakar Idris Babangida.
SP Suleiman Nguroje, Command’s spokesman while confirming the incident, said measures were being taken to rescue the victim.
Babangida, who served during the immediate past government of Governor Umaru Jibrilla Bindow, was kidnapped in the early hours of Tuesday in the state.
It was learnt that his abductors surrounded his home situated at Bajabire village in Girei Local Government Area of the state reportedly killed two persons and injured several others before they abducted him.
A family member said the kidnappers had contacted them and demand N30 million as ransom.
Veteran journalist and recipient of A.B.C Yola, Reporter of the Year Award (1997), Hassan Umar Shallpella, works with WAP as a Regional Correspondence. He was trained at Institute of Mass Communication and Technology Jos and Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, Training School Lagos.He was a News desk Editor and a Correspondent at the Punch newspaper and till 2019, was the Deputy Editor ofThe Scope newspaper.
Latest posts by Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent) (see all)
- NERC Probes Deaths Of 38 Electricity Workers - October 14, 2025
- Flood Killed 236 Persons In Nigeria – NEMA 2025 Report - October 13, 2025
- President Tinubu Grants Posthumous Pardon To Macaulay, Vatsa Others - October 11, 2025
previous
LG Chairman Declares One-Day Fasting And Prayers Over Insecurity
next