Nigeria, April 6 -- The Nigerian police in Kaduna State have disowned and arrested Hadaina Hussaini following his social media post threatening attacks on Southerners living in Northern Nigeria in retaliation for the recent killing of 16 travellers in Uromi, Edo State, in South-South Nigeria.

Mr Hussaini, who appears in police uniform in an image circulating online, issued the threat in a comment under a Facebook post.

The Kaduna State Police Command described Mr Hussaini in a statement on Friday as a dismissed member of a voluntary police outfit.

The statement, shared on the X wall of the Nigerian police's Complaints Response Unit (CRU), and signed by Mansir Hassan, the police spokesperson in Kaduna State, maintained that Mr Hussaini ...