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MAN IN THE NEWS: Ahmad Gumi, the unofficial kakaki of bandits May 06 Gumi. Whenever the four-lettered name crops up in the news, more often than not, what follows is an avalanche of banditry romanticisation: painting the gun-wielding criminals as ‘victims of circumstance’; shushing the media not to bark at bandits but to address them with “nice words”; blaming the government and the system for their decision to make ‘kidnap for ransom’ a thriving industry. Advertisement Ahmad Gumi, ...

Kaduna govt confirms release of 27 kidnapped students, keeps mum on ransom payment The state confirmed their release in a statement signed by the its Commissioner for Home Affairs and Internal Security. The Kaduna State Government has confirmed the release of the 27 students of Federal College of Forestry Mechanization, Afaka. PREMIUM TIMES had earlier broke the news, reporting that the students were on their way to the state capital. However, the state confirmed their release in a statement ...

Punch Newspapers Sections The PUNCH has learnt. It was also gathered that the hoodlums whisked the students into the forest shortly after they ambushed them while journeying on a bus along Okigwe-Uturu Road. The Commissioner for Information in the state, John Kalu, confirmed the development in a statement on Thursday, saying that two of the students escaped from the clutches of the hoodlums while others were still being held hostage by the criminals. The statement read, “Abia State Government...

Daily Post Nigeria Published Six years after retired Major General Muhammadu Buhari a Fulani Moslem from Daura, Katsina State, near Niger Republic, took oath of office twice, he has misled the Country into becoming one of the most troubled sovereign entities in the entire World. Aside pushing Nigeria into the inglorious index as the capital of poverty in the World about two years ago, the President has serially failed to adopt proactive and workable strategic defence mechanisms to protect and d...

Daily Trust gathered reliably that the release of the students was delayed even after payment of ransom last month because the bandits insisted on the release of one of their own arrested by the police. The identified bandit, whose name was given simply as Laulu, was moved to Kaduna from a police facility in Kano on Tuesday ahead of the prisoner swap. The negotiations suffered setbacks after the abductor, known as Buderu, reneged on his promise even after payment of the agreed sum. Daily Trust ...

Vanguard News Abductors of Greenfield varsity students have soft pedal — Sheikh Gumi On By Ibrahim HassanWuyo Hope was raised on the survival of Greenfield University students in captivity, as Sheikh Ahmad Gumi assured that the abductors have now softened their stand after his discussion with them. While fielding questions from journalists after parents of the freed Afaka students paid him a thank-you visit on Thursday, Sheikh Gumi said “the role myself and former President Olusegun Obasan...

Renowned Islamic Cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, has expressed optimism that the remaining students of the Greenfield University, Kaduna will soo... Renowned Islamic Cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, has expressed optimism that the remaining students of the Greenfield University, Kaduna will soon regain their freedom from their captors. Gumi said negotiation was ongoing for the release of the students of the privately-owned university abducted by bandits on April 20, 2021. Few days after their abduction, f...

  Gunmen have reportedly abducted a yet-to-be-determined number of students of the Abia State University, Uturu (ABSU), the state government said on Thursday. According to a statement signed by the State’s Commissioner of Information, John Kalu, the students were abducted along the Okigwe-Uturu road in the state. “Preliminary information available to us indicates that the students were moving in a mini van from Okigwe to Uturu between 7pm – 8pm when they ran into the armed gang who march...

Freed Kidnapped Kaduna Students Undergoing Medical Checkup—Commissioner The newly released 29 students, on Wednesday, nearly two months after they were kidnapped, arrived at the police headquarters in Kaduna. by SaharaReporters, New York May 06, 2021 Kaduna State Government has said that abducted students of the College of Forestry Mechanisation, Afaka recently released are currently receiving medical attention following their experience in the past seven weeks. The state Commissioner for I...

El-Rufai receives 27 freed Kaduna college students, two missing Olalekan Adetayo  and Godwin Isenyo Published 6 May 2021 Olalekan Adetayo  and Godwin Isenyo Published 6 May 2021 Twenty-seven abducted students of the Federal College of Forestry Mechanisation, Afaka, in the Igabi Local Government Area of Kaduna State, have been released by bandits. The Chairman of The Forum of the Abducted Parents,  Malam Abdullahi Usman confirmed it to our correspondent on the telephone on Wednesday. The el...