The Chairman, Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) board, Muhammed Mahmood, and his daughter have been released by their abductors.
This recent development was confirmed by an aide to Mahmood via the telephone in a chat with SaharaReporters on Tuesday.
According to him, he stated that his boss and his daughter were released at about 1:30pm, and the both of them are hale and healthy.
The aide claimed that no ransom was paid to the abductors for his release.
Mr. Mahmood was abducted alongside his daughter and his driver shot dead along the Kaduna-Abuja highaway, around Katari, a village few kilometres from Zuba, an Abuja suburb, on Monday while travelling from Kaduna to Abuja.
