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Ring True BY Yemi Adebowale  Email: yemi.adebowale@thisdaylive.com  Phone 08054699539 339. As at press time, that’s the number of students from three schools languishing in the dungeons of bandits in Niger, Kebbi and Kaduna states. There are hundreds of others from unrecorded abductions, still with kidnappers. Hundreds of children are being abused in forests and all we get are rhetoric from a lame federal government that controls all the security agencies in the country. While we sleep in t...

Jul 4, 2021 Shehu Rekep, deputy of an armed group of "bandits" in Nigeria’s northwestern Zamfara state, contends they have taken up crime because government hasnt protected their livelihood as herders. In seven months, bandits and terrorist groups have demanded more than N307 million as ransom from the families of kidnap victims. The figure is the ransom demanded by kidnappers from school attacks in northern Nigeria. The northern region of the country has witnessed a plethora of kidnappings b...

Muyiwa Adekeye, the special adviser on media and communication to the governor, had remained mum when Daily Trust sought explanation on the governor’s action. However, in an interview with BBC Pidgin, after publication of the story, El-Rufai said his son had been targeted by bandits because of his public stance against the payment of ransom. In the interview, El-Rufai said it was the first time he would address the issue. He added that his daughter, Nesrin, was also enrolled in the school w...

RingTrue BY Yemi Adebowale Email: yemi.adebowale@thisdaylive.com Those we have elected to protect us at the state and federal levels are persistently busy complaining and shifting blames instead of taking no-nonsense action to tame raging insecurity across Nigeria. People who took oaths to shield Nigerians persistently tell us that bandits, killer herders and kidnapper ravaging the country are foreigners as if our law says foreign criminals in Nigeria must not be tackled. Even those sitting in ...

SaharaReporters gathered that a student was also killed while others sustained injuries during the attack on Thursday night.

Gunmen, on Thursday night invaded the Nuhu Bamali Polytechnic in Zaria Local Government Area, abducted two academic staff, three students and killed one

One person was shot dead while students and lecturers were abducted when kidnappers invaded Nuhu Bamali Polytechnic in Zaria, Kaduna State, on Thursday night. The number of abducted students is yet to be ascertained but Daily Trust gathered that the abducted lecturers are Mr Habila Nasai from General Studies Department and Mr Adamu Shehu Shika […]

Kaduna state authorities have confirmed two lecturers and eight students were kidnapped in an armed attack on Nuhu Bamalli Polytechnic, Zaria on Thursday. One student was shot dead in the attack, according to Samuel Aruwan, Kaduna’s commissioner for internal security and home affairs. 3-month-old baby, 5 women kidnapped in Abuja 7 arrested after paint, smoke […]

A student has been killed after gunmen invaded the Nuhu Bamalli Polytechnic, Zaria, Kaduna state.

Now that Twitter is banned, will kidnapping of Nigerian students stop? Now that Twitter is banned, will kidnapping of Nigerian students stop? For the first time in a long while, the Nigerian government suddenly came alive after Twitter deleted President Muhammadu Buhari’s tweet on civil war.  As many Nigerians were still wondering if the news report was fake or real, Information Minister Lai Mohammed accused the micro-blogging platform of being selective and bias. Shortly after that, governm...