Suleiman Abdullahi, a final year student of the Geography Department at Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto State, has been kidnapped along Shinkafi-Sokoto road in Sokoto State. SaharaReporters gathered that Suleiman was returning back to school on Monday eight months after Nigerian universities were shut down due to industrial action embarked upon by the lecturers. A source close to the family said his relations had been trying to negotiate with his kidnappers to secure his release.
SaharaReporters gathered that Suleiman was returning back to school on Monday eight months after Nigerian universities were shut down due to industrial action embarked upon by the lecturers.Suleiman Abdullahi, a final year student of the Geography Department at Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto State, has been kidnapped along Shinkafi-Sokoto road in Sokoto State.
A source close to the family said his relations had been trying to negotiate with his kidnappers to secure his release. A relation of one of the victims told SaharaReporters last Wednesday evening that the abductors contacted his family and demanded they collectively raise N300 million to secure the release of the abductees.He said the abductors rejected the N500,000 offered as a ransom to secure the release of the students. They instead asked them to start preparing for their burial if"we'll even see their bodies to bury.
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