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...

MINNA — The Taskforce on the implementation of the law prohibiting the illegal slaughter of animals in the Minna metropolis of Niger state has arrested fifteen persons for violating the law. Dr. Ibrahim Garba Musa, Permanent Secretary Niger state Ministry of Livestock and Fisheries, who stated this in Minna the state capital, said they were arrested during an enforcement drive by the Taskforce. Musa expressed dismay over the indiscriminate slaughter of animals in the affected...