Unspecified number of persons including a professor of Economics in the University of Abuja, his two children, were reportedly abducted by gunmen in the early hours of Tuesday.
The lecturer,whose name was given as Prof. Joseph Obansa,was taken away among others when the gunmen reportedly invaded the institution’s staff quarters,located at Giri, in Gwagwalada, about 30 kilometres away from the nation’s federal capital city.
The news of the invasion which surfaced in the university’s social media page, early Tuesday, few hours after the development, has been confirmed by the Public Relations Officer, PRO of the institution, Dr Habib Yakoob.
