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Gunmen have attacked a school in northwestern Nigeria and kidnapped 39 students just weeks after a similar mass abduction in the region, authorities said Friday.

A military source told Daily Trust that but for the efforts of personnel of the Nigerian Air Force and troops of 1 Division Nigerian Army Headquarters, Kaduna, the attack would have been worse. The source, who did not want to be named, said some students were rescued during the attack but the kidnappers made away with an unconfirmed number of students. ASP Mohammed Jalige, Police Public Relations Officer in Kaduna, had earlier confirmed the incident to Daily Trust  but said the number of abd...

Share Following attack at Federal College of Forestry Mechanisation, Afaka, Igabi Local Gvernment Area of Kaduna State, the state government has said 180 students have been rescued, while 30 students are still missing. This was contained in a statement issued by the state Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Samuel Aruwan, on Friday. The statement said: “Troops of the Nigerian Army in the early hours of today, Friday, 12th March 2021 rescued 180 citizens, many of them students...

The Nigerian army says it had foiled the attempt of bandits to abduct some students of Turkish International Secondary School in Kaduna state.

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Gunmen have attacked a school in northwestern Nigeria and...

Nigerian police camp at the site where a fresh suspected mass kidnapping took place Thursday night. Officials said 30 students are missing following yet another kidnapping incident at a college in Afaka, in Nigeria’s northwestern state of Kaduna. The suspected gang reportedly stormed the Federal College of Forestry Mechanization in Mando, Kaduna state, around 9:30pm local time, begun shooting indiscriminately and taking students hostage. "Im here because of my sisters. Yesterday they get lost...

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On Thursday night, armed men stormed the Federal College of Forestry Mechanisation in Afaka, in Igabi Local Government Area of the State, and abducted some students. Many have expressed shock that such an attack could happen at a school close to the Nigerian Defence Academy. JUST IN: We can’t account for 30 students Kaduna Govt […]

Authorities say gunmen have attacked a school in northwestern Nigeria and kidnapped 39 students just weeks after a similar attack in the region blamed on bandits.

By Ryan Shepard Mar 12, 2021 A group of "armed bandits" reportedly abducted 30 students from a school in northwest Nigeria late Thursday night. Members of the faculty were also reportedly kidnapped as well. The incident took place at the Federal College of Forestry Mechanization, Afaka in the Kaduna state. “About 30 students, a mix of males and females, are yet to be accounted for,” Kaduna State Ministry of Internal Security and Home Affairs Samuel Aruwan said. Fortunately, military resp...