The actress, Rabi Ismail, who escaped from Hadejia prison, Jigawa state on December16, 2011 after being sentenced to death, has been recaptured.


Francis Enobore, spokesperson for the prisons authorities, confirmed that Ismail was rearrested through a collaboration between the Nigerian Prisons Service (NPS) and the State Security Service (SSS).

Ismail was alleged to have murdered her boyfriend, Ibrahim Auwalu, in 2002, and was in 2005 found guilty of culpable homicide and sentenced to death by a high court in Kano.

The actress was said to have lured Ibrahim to a picnic at Tiga Dam, where she poisoned him with chocolate and pushed him into the dam.

She was initially held at the Kaduna central prison from where she was transferred to Hadejia prison before she escaped.