Our mission
To promote responsible care, compassion and welfare for cats within Ahmadu Bello University and the wider community through rescue, rehabilitation, adoption, veterinary care, education, advocacy, research and partnerships.
Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria
Protect.
Care.
Coexist.
We are the students who feed the campus cats, get the injured ones treated, find them homes, and argue — loudly, on the road if necessary — that how a community treats its animals is a public health question.
Catwalk 2.0 · Cat Week 2026
Who we are
A student club that decided the campus cats were somebody's responsibility.
ABU Cats Club was formed to answer a set of problems nobody had claimed: hunger, untreated injuries, illness, abandonment, traps set by hunters, uncontrolled breeding, and a general assumption that none of it mattered.
We care for the cats directly — and we spend just as much effort persuading everyone else to do the same, through teaching, campaigns and research.
Our vision
To inspire communities to adopt compassionate, responsible and sustainable approaches to the welfare and humane management of stray and community animals — with ABU Cats Club as a model for community-led animal welfare and One Health.
Our impact
The work, in numbers
- 7 Rescue cases Injured, trapped or abandoned animals a volunteer attended
- 4 Spay/neuter procedures Humane population management
- 22 Volunteers Students who have given time to the club
- 545 Members People who have joined ABU Cats Club
- 6 Projects completed Campaigns, drives, seminars and outreach
- 13 Campus areas reached Faculties, hostels and surrounding communities
Figures as of 4 September 2026. See how we count them.
Looking for homes
Four cats you could meet this week
Amina
AvailableRescued with her littermates during the rains. Playful, still learning that hands are not prey, and happiest asleep on something warm.
Meet Amina →
Danja
AvailableQuiet, watchful and easily the most self-possessed kitten in the litter. Danja sizes up a room before he commits to it, then never leaves.
Meet Danja →
Hajiya
ReservedAn adult calico with no interest in being carried and a great deal of interest in being fed. Best suited to someone who wants company rather than a lap cat.
Meet Hajiya →Cats of ABU
Not strays. Residents.
Most of these are not up for adoption — they already live here, and we feed, treat and neuter them where they are. A dot marks the ones looking for a home.
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Amina· In foster care with a volunteer -
Danja· In foster care near the Vet Faculty -
Hajiya· Behind the main library -
Bature Faculty of Veterinary Medicine -
Goggo Near the ICSA gate -
Sarki Senior staff quarters
Latest
Stories from the work
Cat Week 2026: what a hundred students on a road can do
For one week in August the club took the argument out of the lecture hall and onto the road — a march, a seminar, a food drive and a social night, under one line: protect, care, coexist.
Why animal welfare is a public health question
Notes from the Prof. Krzysztof Schoeneich Memorial One Health Seminar, on rabies, zoonoses and why a campus that ignores its animals eventually pays for it.
Musky’s story
He went in on four legs in April and came out on three in October. Six months, one amputation, and the reason this club exists at all.
Featured projects
What a year of the club looks like
Cat Week 2026
A week of awareness: the Catwalk march, a One Health seminar, a food drive and a social night.
Catwalk 2.0
The awareness march — banners, placards and a hundred students taking the campus cats seriously.
First Congress
The club’s founding congress — where the constitution, the council and the first year of work were agreed.
Professor Krzysztof Schoeneich Memorial One Health Seminar
A memorial seminar that educated participants on the connection between animal welfare and public health, held in honour of a late environmentalist who cared for the campus cats.
Our executives
The council running the club
15 officers, elected each session. Every one of them is a student who took on a job nobody was being paid for.
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Aisha Umar Panti Founding President Leads the club and represents it externally Read more → - Ismail N Jibril Vice President Deputises for the President and coordinates projects Read more →
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Saimeerah Abubakar MJ General Secretary Records, correspondence and meetings - Abdulhameed Muktar Abolaji Assistant Secretary Supports the secretariat
- Mahmud Ruqayyah A.O Treasurer Donations, expenditure and accounts Read more →
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Nafisah Okunade Financial Secretary Financial records and reporting - Nabeelah Jummai Yusuph Public Relations Officer Represents the club and handles enquiries Read more →
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Amina Salihu Danladi Director of Welfare I Receives and manages welfare cases Read more → - Abdulsamad Musa Director of Welfare II Receives and manages welfare cases
- Sa'idu Abdulyazid Abdurrahman Director of Feeding I Runs the campus feeding programme
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Aliyah Abdulmumini Director of Feeding II Runs the campus feeding programme - Kalimah Ibrahim Data & Research Officer Records, analysis and One Health research Read more →
- Abdulkareem Muhammadulfatah Omeiza Director, Awareness & Publicity Campaigns, media and outreach
- Mukhtar Tahir Mustapha Samaru Campus Manager Coordinates work on Samaru campus
- Mustapha Muhammad Kamilu Kongo Campus Manager Coordinates work on Kongo campus
Past administrations are listed in the executive archive.
Working with
- FACT Initiative (Feed A Cat Today)
- Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, ABU
- Veterinary Teaching Hospital, ABU
- Vetkonect
It takes about an hour a week.
Feeding runs, rescue callouts, photography, design, research, fundraising — there is a version of this work that fits your timetable.