{"id":200254,"date":"2026-07-18T13:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T12:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/kidnapped-nasarawa-varsity-professor-rescued-suspects-arrested"},"modified":"2026-07-18T14:04:52","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T13:04:52","slug":"kidnapped-nasarawa-varsity-professor-rescued-suspects-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/kidnapped-nasarawa-varsity-professor-rescued-suspects-arrested","title":{"rendered":"Kidnapped Nasarawa Varsity Professor Rescued Suspects Arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Operatives of the Department of State Services, DSS, have rescued a lecturer at the Nasarawa State University, Keffi, NSUK, Professor Samuel Okunsebor, who was abducted by gunmen.<\/p>\n<p>Okunsebor, the Dean, Faculty of Agriculture at the university, was said to have been abducted on Wednesday at Mile Uku, a boundary community between Lafia and Nasarawa Eggon LGAs of the state.<\/p>\n<p>According to a security expert, Zagazola Makama, gunmen attacked the community at midnight on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>He said that the DSS operatives successfully located and rescued the professor at about 3:00 pm on Friday following intelligence-driven operations.<\/p>\n<p>DSS operatives handed over the professor to his family members in the presence of senior officials of the university, including the Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Kitso Ngbargu.<\/p>\n<p>The security expert further revealed that Okunsebor was subsequently taken to the Federal University of Lafia Teaching Hospital for medical evaluation and routine medical checks.<\/p>\n<p>Recall that in June, three students of the Federal University of Lafia, FULafia, were abducted by unidentified gunmen.<\/p>\n<p>The students were reportedly taken from their residence near the university\u2019s temporary campus in Akunza, Lafia.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Operatives of the Department of State Services, DSS, have rescued a lecturer at the Nasarawa State University, Keffi, NSUK, Professor Samuel Okunsebor, who was abducted by gunmen. Okunsebor, the Dean, Faculty of Agriculture at the university, was said to have been abducted on Wednesday at Mile Uku, a boundary community between Lafia [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":200253,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[254],"class_list":["post-200254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Kidnapped Nasarawa Varsity Professor Rescued Suspects Arrested - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Operatives of the Department of State Services, DSS, have rescued a lecturer at the Nasarawa State University, Keffi, NS ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/kidnapped-nasarawa-varsity-professor-rescued-suspects-arrested\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Kidnapped Nasarawa Varsity Professor Rescued Suspects Arrested\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Operatives of the Department of State Services, DSS, have rescued a lecturer at the Nasarawa State University, Keffi, NS ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/kidnapped-nasarawa-varsity-professor-rescued-suspects-arrested\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-07-18T12:00:07+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-07-18T13:04:52+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2026\/07\/sm_1784379837.309511.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"707\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/kidnapped-nasarawa-varsity-professor-rescued-suspects-arrested#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/kidnapped-nasarawa-varsity-professor-rescued-suspects-arrested\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Kidnapped Nasarawa Varsity Professor Rescued Suspects Arrested\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-07-18T12:00:07+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-07-18T13:04:52+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/kidnapped-nasarawa-varsity-professor-rescued-suspects-arrested\"},\"wordCount\":198,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/kidnapped-nasarawa-varsity-professor-rescued-suspects-arrested#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2026\/07\/sm_1784379837.309511.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/kidnapped-nasarawa-varsity-professor-rescued-suspects-arrested#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/kidnapped-nasarawa-varsity-professor-rescued-suspects-arrested\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/kidnapped-nasarawa-varsity-professor-rescued-suspects-arrested\",\"name\":\"Kidnapped Nasarawa Varsity Professor Rescued Suspects Arrested - 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