Isolation, Optimization and Characterization of Lipase Producing Bacteria from Abbatoir Soil Hadiza Jamilu1, Aliyu Hassan Ibrahim2, Suleiman Zubair Abdullahi2 Abstract Microorganisms can easily degrade agro-industrial wastes in a solid-state fermentation process thereby synthesizing many important commercial bio compounds including lipolytic enzymes. Screening different habitats for bacteria with lipase activity and