Staff of the University of Abuja and their children who were kidnapped yesterday have regained freedom.

Thelagostimes gathered that this is coming barely twenty Four hours after their abduction.

Sources said they were rescued by Security operatives in the early hours of Wednesday.

According to Vanguard, the sources who cannot be named because they were not authorised to speak on behalf of the university gave credit to the bravery of the university security staff and other security agents who chased the abductors to Kwali area where they engaged them in a gun battle.

The abductors were said to have abandoned the victims when they were confronted with superior fire power.

Thelagostimes had earlier reported that a professor of Economics, Obansa Joseph, and two of his children were abducted in the early hours of Tuesday when gunmen attacked the staff quarters of the University.