Nigeria, May 19 -- The police in Imo State, South-east Nigeria, have refuted a report that 15 candidates for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (UTME) were abducted in the state.

The police spokesperson in the state, Henry Okoye, disclosed this in a statement on Sunday.

The UTME candidates were students of Eminent Scholars Imperial Academy, Onitsha, Anambra State.

The students had departed Onitsha on Friday for their rescheduled UTME examinations at the Computer-Based Test (CBT) centre in Okigwe Zone in Imo State.

But the students' whereabouts were unknown after their examinations on Saturday, with reports suggesting that they might have been abducted.

Okigwe is among the areas worst hit by insecurity in Imo, with freque...