A tense scene unfolded outside the main entrance of Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) on Tuesday after live rounds reportedly spilled from a passenger bus cruising along the Zaria–Katsina Highway, prompting alarm among students, commuters, and roadside traders.
The incident was first flagged in an online video by Zagazola Intelligence, stirring speculation across social platforms that the stray ammunition might be tied to illicit supplies intended for armed groups active between Kaduna and Katsina.
A self-identified eyewitness, Musa, said the chaos came without warning.
“We suddenly saw the bullets drop from the bus as it sped past the gate. Before people could understand what happened, the vehicle had already disappeared,” he said.
A student who asked not to be named described the moment as unsettling, adding that the location—just steps from the university’s gate—amplified fears.
“It felt strange and frightening… everyone wondered who was transporting it and why,” he said.
According to Musa, passersby swiftly scooped up some of the rounds before signalling to security officers stationed nearby. An alert was reportedly raised moments after.
Responding to the development, ABU security units mobilised quickly, later supported by police and federal counter-terror officers reviewing the clip.
“We suddenly saw the bullets drop from the bus… it caused confusion instantly,” Musa reiterated in the footage later circulating online.
Rotimi Amaechi and several Kaduna-based civic groups, reacting to the incident, urged tighter monitoring of expressway transit near critical institutions.
Officials from the state police command said operatives eventually arrived and “secured the remnants of the ammunition,” a claim mirrored in Makama’s earlier video, which showed armed personnel combing the roadside and diverting traffic for brief minutes.
While no arrests were reported at the time of filing, the episode has added to public unease over unmonitored highway movement near schools, worship centres, and federal institutions in Northern Nigeria.
This is coming barely 24hrs after this paper reported a religious crusade in Agboda village, Nasarawa State, descended into confusion on Monday night after attendees fled in panic over rumours that armed herders were advancing toward the gathering.
A video circulating online shows worshippers running in all directions as shouts filled the air, though no armed individuals appeared in the footage. The man recording the clip claimed the crowd fled because of feared herdsmen.
“They came for a crusade here in Agboda in Nasarawa State. We came in for crusade in this community today, look at what the herdsmen did. As you can see the way people are moving… you can see the youth, everybody is unrest for the sake of herdsmen,” he said.
But Ramhan Hansel, spokesperson for the Nasarawa police command, noted that no such incident had been reported.
“We don’t know where that incident happened, and there is no report of anything like that in Nasarawa State, so you can help us speak to the person in the video if you know him and ask him to kindly come forward,” he
