Despite the rescue of six law students abducted on their way to Yola, Adamawa State, there are growing fears over student safety and the heightened dangers of inter-state travel—particularly through regions fraught with conflict and instability.
The six law students kidnapped while traveling to the Nigerian Law School in Adamawa were successfully rescued by operatives of the Benue State Police Command.
The students had departed from Anambra State but were abducted on July 26, 2025, near the volatile Benue-Taraba border—a region increasingly plagued by kidnappings and armed violence.
In a statement released on Friday, Police Public Relations Officer Udeme Edet confirmed that the students were rescued in the early hours of August 1 and have since been reunited with their families.
“The six students of the Nigerian Law School, Yola campus, who were abducted while traveling from Anambra to Adamawa, have been rescued and are safe,” Edet said.
The incident gained national attention during the Nigerian Bar Association’s North-Central Security Summit in Makurdi, where NBA President Afam Osigwe voiced serious concerns over the country’s worsening security climate. He called the abduction “a chilling reminder of the vulnerability of even our brightest young minds.”
