BREAKING: Defence chief visits NDA over attack, killing, abduction of officers

The Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), General Lucky Irabor, is currently on a visit to the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA) following an attack on the military training institution by gunmen early Tuesday morning.

Gen Irabor arrived at the academy at about 5 pm and was taken around the academy by its commandant, Major General Yusuf, and other officials to have first-hand information on what really happened.

Gunmen had in the early hours of Tuesday attacked the institution after gaining access through the residential area within the Academy in Afaka, killed two personnels, and abducted one.

Meanwhile, security has been beefed up in and around the academy as just as the academy in collaboration with the 1 Division Nigerian Army and Air Training Command as well as other security agencies in Kaduna State have commenced pursuit of the gunmen within the general area with a view to tracking them and to rescue the abducted personnel.