Exam candidates abducted

JOS, Nigeria (AFP) — Fourteen people were abducted in central Nigeria’s Benue state while traveling to sit a university entrance exam, police and witnesses told Agence France-Presse on Thursday.

Benue’s police commissioner Ifeanyi Emenari said the young people were kidnapped while travelling on a bus bound for the town of Otukpo where the exam was set to take place.