How Social Media Aided Escape Of Afaka Students’ Abductors – Police

The Kaduna State Police Command on Thursday gave an insight into how social media report aided the escape of abductors of 37 students of the Federal College of Forestry Mechanisation, Afaka, in Igabi Local Government Area of Kaduna State. Bandits, in large numbers, had, on March 11, 2021, invaded the school premises along the Kaduna International Airport road opposite Nigeria’s foremost military university, Nigerian Defence Academy; and abducted the students. The bandits reached out in viral video and demanded N500m ransom a few days after the abduction. However, the students were finally released in batches after over 50 days in

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Katsina, despite being Buhari’s home state, bandits recruit youths with N5,000 – Gov Masari raises alarm

Katsina State Governor, Aminu Masari, has lamented that bandits have infiltrated communities in the state, recruiting young men with as low as N5,000 along with drugs and other intoxicants. Masari added that the Nigerian Police Force does not have adequate number of personnel to effectively police the state with a population of about eight million people. Masari spoke on Thursday when the Inspector-General of Police, Usman Baba, visited the Government House on a courtesy call to President Muhammadu Buhari’s home state. The governor said, “Katsina State has a population of about eight million people and how many policemen do we

BREAKING: Five Zamfara Students Escape From Bandits’ Den

Five students of the students abducted from Government Secondary School, Kaya, Maradun Local Government Area of Zamfara State, have escaped. Some gunmen invaded the school on Wednesday morning, abducting over 70 students, all female, and a teacher. Meanwhile, over 400 students were said to be at the school at the time of the attack. According to the police,armed bandits invaded the Government Day Secondary School in the village of Kaya in the state at 11:22 am, kidnapping the students. "The command ... has deployed search and rescue team that was mandated to work in synergy with the military to ensure

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2023: Don’t allow Atiku waste your ticket, group cautions PDP

SUPPORTERS of the Peoples Democratic Party, under the aegis of PDP Action 2023, has appealed to the party to avoid repeating the mistake of wasting its Presidential ticket on former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar. The group made the appeal in a statement titled, “Atiku Should Not Waste PDP Ticket Again,” signed by its National Chairman, Dr. Rufus Omeire, in Abuja, on Wednesday. Omeire said, “The PDP Action 2023 warns once again, that to give Atiku Abubakar another chance as PDP Presidential Candidate is to ensure a clear defeat for PDP in 2023, and admonishes the former Vice-President of Nigeria not

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73 Zamfara students’ abduction: ACF fumes as gov tells residents to fight back

    Gunmen, on Wednesday, invaded the Government Day Secondary School, Kaya, in the Maradun Local Government Area of Zamfara State and abducted no fewer than 73 students. The PUNCH gathered that the attack, which came barely five days after some students of the College of Agriculture and Animals Science, Bakura, were released, occurred around 11am when the students were sitting their examinations. As of the time the gunmen were attacking the Kaya school, the state governor, Bello Matawalle, was attending a prayer session organised by his administration, where he called on the residents of the state to rise up

We’ll arrest NDA attackers no matter how long, COAS vows

    THE Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Faruk Yahaya, has vowed that perpetrators of the attack on the Nigeria Defence Academy would be brought to book, notwithstanding how long it takes to get them. This was contained in a statement on Wednesday by the Academy’s Public Relations Officer, Bashir Jajira. The COAS was said to have visited the Nigerian Defence Academy on Tuesday. The statement was titled, ‘COAS assures NDA of support to tackle insecurity’. It partly read, “The COAS appealed to the Academy staff to remain loyal to the country and not allow the unfortunate incident to

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