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News of the release of the 27 kidnapped students of the Federal College of Forestry Mechanisation, Afaka, Kaduna State, no doubt, calls for celebration. These students spent 50 good days in the camp of their captors. We saw them being beaten and assaulted in a trending video released by their kidnappers.  It doesn’t matter if two of the 29 students said to be in the bandits’ enclave after their abduction on March 11, 2021 are yet to be accounted for. As sad as this is, it seems to be of li...

Punch Newspapers Sections Published 13 May 2021 A security expert, Dr Ona Ekhomu, has asked state governments to develop a kidnap contingency plan to manage all aspects of mass abduction of school students. In a statement in Lagos on Wednesday, Ekhomu, who is the National President of the Association of Industrial Security and Safety Operators of Nigeria, condemned the handling of the abduction of the 39 students of the Federal College of Forestry Mechanisation, Afaka, Kaduna State, saying gove...

By Onyebuchi Ezigbo A former Chief Executive Officer of the Nigeria Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), Prof. Usman Yusuf, has advocated a non-military solution to battle the insecurity bedeviling the country. Yusuf, who said he played a key role along with former President Olusegun Obasanjo and Muslim cleric, Sheik Abubakar Gumi, in negotiating freedom for the 27 abducted students of the Federal College of Forestry Mechanisation, Afaka, in Kaduna State, spoke yesterday on ‘The Morning Show,â...

Gunmen had on March 12, 2021 invaded the institution and abducted 39 students, including a pregnant woman.

In recent months, bandits have initiated a series of attacks and kidnappings in various states, making governance difficult for those in power and heightening the degree of insecurity in the country. Students of secondary and tertiary levels of education have become the major victims of these acts of banditry.Some of the schools which have witnessed attacks in the past few months include Government Science College, Kagara in Niger; Government Girls Secondary School, Jangebe in Zamfara; Federal ...

❚ You already voted!   Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai on Thursday said the state was prepared to have some students of the Federal College of Forestry Mechanisation, Afaka, Kaduna State killed in an unsuccessful bombardment aimed at bandits. Speaking in the wake of the students’ release, Mr El-Rufai said that before the bombardment could be done, the bandits hurriedly changed location which led to the students spending over a month in captivity.   “Two days after the abdu...

Although 39 of them were kidnapped during the attack, 10 were earlier released while the remaining students Advertisement Commenting on the development, the ACF said: “We thank God for saving their lives and rejoice with their families both immediate and extended. “Our only regret is that millions of naira were alleged to have been paid to the bandits before they granted freedom to the kidnapped students.” The ACF appealed to the bandits holding other innocent people to set them free wit...

Kaduna State Governor, Nasir el-Rufai has come under fire for his revelation that he was ready to sacrifice some students of the College of Forestry Mechanization, Afaka in Igabi Local Government Area of the state in order to neutralise bandits who abducted them. For many Nigerians, el-rufai’s revelation was not just insensitive, lacking in good tactics but also a practical demonstration of how lowly Nigerian leaders think of citizens if he could merely see the killing of some students during...

We suffered a lot — Freed Afaka student On By Ibrahim HassanWuyo One of the freed students of the Federal College of Forestry Mechanisation, Afaka, Kaduna state, Sarah Sunday has recounted their ordeals in the hands of their abductors saying they suffered a lot. She however said they have forgiven their abductors. The students were abducted when gunmen attacked their school on March 12. Although 39 of them were kidnapped during the attack, 10 of the students were earlier released. However, o...

Archyde May 8, 2021 by archyde End of ordeal in Nigeria for about thirty students. Kidnapped in March from their university in the city of Afaka, they were able to find their families on Friday. In total, 39 students were kidnapped on March 11 from their university in northwestern Nigeria. A first group of ten students had been found by security forces in the weeks following the attack, but the last 29 students missing were held captive for nearly two months. The Nigerian authorities ...