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measure terror in a single blow. Roberto Sosa’s line, ‘I entered the House of Justice of my country and found it to be a temple of snake charmers’, seems to resonate with our beloved Nigeria today. Nigeria has been turned ‘into a jail country’ (en un país cárcel). ‘Today, the entire country is militarized’, in insecurity, despair and with patriots wearing forlorn faces. However, there are many of us in the ‘massive and though unorganized resistance that has not stopped demonst...

Three of the students abducted from Greenfield University in Kaduna State have been murdered.

The state is yet to confirm the exact number of students taken hostage. Samuel Aruwan, the commissioner for internal security and home affairs, said the bandits who attacked the school killed three of the students. Advertisement A statement he issued on Friday readd: “In an act of mindless evil and sheer wickedness, the armed bandits who kidnapped students of Greenfield University, have shot dead three of the abducted students. “The armed bandits on Tuesday night kidnapped an unspecified nu...

Again, gunmen have attacked a private university in Nigeria’s northern Kaduna state, killing one staff member and kidnapping some students. It was not immediately clear how many students had been abducted from Greenfield University during the Tuesday night attack and one official said they were still conducting a headcount. Two officials at the university told AFP at least 20 students were still missing though it was unclear how many had been taken by gunmen or may have fled the attack. “Th...

The hospital is located less than a kilometre from a police checkpoint along the Kaduna-Kachia Road in Idon.

Abductions: Why Sheikh Gumi Stopped Negotiating With Bandits In Kaduna— Aide Gumi’s media aide, Malam Salisu Hassan, told SaharaReporters in an interview on Thursday that the cleric halted his plans because the state government was not interested in negotiations. by Saharareporters, New York Apr 22, 2021 Popular Islamic cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, has shelved negotiations with any groups of bandits in Kaduna State because of the stance of the state government, which forbids such moves, the ...

By Adesina Wahab Nigeria has the unenviable record of having the highest number of out-of-school children, OSC, in the world, it is currently put at over 15 million. Also, the country is among the leaders in the Misery Index calculation, no thanks to a number of factors. Misery Index is the measurement of the impact of unemployment, inflation, and other factors on a nation’s economy and the resultant effects on the lives of the citizens. Recently, the National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, came ...

  Gunmen have attacked a private university in Kaduna State on Tuesday night, abducting an unspecified number of students.  The academic institution, Greenfield University, is located along the Kaduna–Abuja Highway in Chikun Local Government Area, and also the first private university in the state established three years ago. The latest incident is the first major attack that bandits will launch on communities around the Kaduna-Abuja Highway since 300 female soldiers were deployed to the ge...

The attack on the private university was carried out late on Tuesday, April 20.

The school, Green Field University, is located along the Kaduna–Abuka Highway in the Chikun Local Government Area.