Mr Amobi was arrested as he was travelling to Doha with 1.3kg of Indian hemp concealed in a bag of foodstuffs.
Governor Abubakar Bello of Niger has lamented that while his government is battling bandits, new criminals are targeting students.
“The vehicle carried 130 sheep and an unspecified number of people leaving Katsina for Lagos.”
“Eleven persons died on the spot while several others who sustained various degrees of injuries were evacuated to Federal Medical Centre, Bida, for treatment.”
Buhari has charged the nation’s security and intelligence agencies to rescue 200 children kidnapped from an Islamic school.
Other items recovered are one locally-made revolver pistol, one live ammunition of AK47 and two empty shells of AK47 rifle ammunition.
The commissioner said the corpse of the criminal had been deposited at a hospital mortuary.
