Police confirm abduction of Kebbi deputy speaker, begin rescue operation

Nigeria’s insecurity story took another alarming turn on Friday night as Alhaji Muhammad Sama’ila-Bagudo, the Deputy Speaker of the Kebbi State House of Assembly, was abducted right after leaving the mosque in Bagudo town. According to the police, armed men stormed the area around 8:20pm, seized the lawmaker, and vanished into...