Nigeria, Oct. 21 -- The police have announced the rescue of its top officer kidnapped by gunmen in Kaduna on Saturday.

PREMIUM TIMES reported how an Assistant Commissioner of Police, Musa Rabo, who works as a police area commander at the Suleja Area Command in Niger State, was kidnapped alongside his driver on their way to Jos on Saturday evening.

While the kidnappers made contact with the relatives of the victim demanding N50 million ransom, the police said the victim was rescued by its officers.

The police in a statement via its official Twitter handle late Sunday evening said its rescued Mr Rabo "unhurt by a combined team of Police operatives from Kaduna, Niger and Zone 7 Command Headquarters Abuja, backed-up by members of the elite...