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Katsina School Attack: Apprehensive parents troop to school after rescue rumour The Minister of Defence, Bashir Salihi-Magashi, had given an assurance that the abducted students of the school will be rescued soon. ADVERTISEMENT Some parents and guardians of the missing students of Government Science Secondary School Kankara have trooped to the school premises following reports suggesting that some of the abducted students have been rescued. PREMIUM TIMES reported how the 333 students went missi...

Protests rock Katsina over abducted 333 schoolboys On By Bashir Bello, Dirisu Yakubu, Gabriel Olawale, Charly Agwam & Olayinka Latona Protests yesterday rocked Kankara in Kankara Local Government Area of Katsina State, following the abduction of students of Government Senior Secondary School, GSSS, in the town by bandits on Friday night. The protests came on a day governor of the state, Aminu Bello Masari, told a delegation of the Federal Government that about 333 students of the school were s...

National treasure. without all of the people backing you brave men and women, it wouldnt work so well for you. your life would be a lot more difficult. it wouldnt be the same. you all know that. maybe we should give them a round of applause. come on. [applause] its true. there are many incredible patriots to recognize here today, beginning with the outstanding airman of the 11th air force. give yourselves a hand. [applause] the airman of the third wing, and air commander colonel bob davis. bob? ...

Box, itself. i know that when they recover one of the black boxes from the air france search and put it on the bench and cleaned it up and put a new battery in it and tested it, it didnt function at the frequency they were expecting. and it also didnt give the correct voltage that they were expecting which indicated that either the box had suffered some sort of damage -- im sorry, the beacon had suffered damage or that it was manufactured incorrectly or had some defect inside. so it could be any...

Search teams looking for malaysian airlines flight 370 following up on several possible electronic pings detected in the southern indian ocean. the ninth hour of this long search. the chinese ship picked up the electronic signals twice, once friday and again saturday. those on board ocean shield detected what was described as an acoustic noise. the head of the search said detections are encouraging but have not been verified as being related to the missing flight. earlier our expert richard ques...

Debris. youre looking for lots of it. and thats why yesterday and the day before when we heard about thailands satellite of 300 pieces, we thought this is really interesting. this could be it. until they moved the search zone to the north. but now were getting something more. >> we got new information in the last hour you should know, richard. we spoke with the new zealand air commander. remember a new zealand plane spotted this white object. he said -- this is an hour or so ago. he said within ...

>> there have been no sightings yet. >> [ inaudible ] >> do they pick them up? >> the most likely scenario is that an aircraft will find an object, if it is findable. and then report back at an accurate gps position and they would proceed to the area and attempt to see it. that would be our first chance to get a close-up look at whatever the objects might be. and progressively advance the identification of whether theyre associated with this search or not. [ inaudible ] >> we were provided it fr...

To take a look at whatever the objects might be. and progressively advance identification of whether theyre associated with the search or not. >> when was the satellite imagery captured? do you know what time? what day? >> were provided it from australian ago this morning. but i might ask air commander to speak about the imagery. >> so imagery being progressively captured by satellites out of the various areas. the task of analyzing imagery is quite difficult requiring drawing down frames going ...

Surveillance and a ground command to strike what they thought were insurgents. a translated apology, general mcchrystal spoke to the afghan people. >> and these werent just words. coalition forces must now wait 72 hours to establish a "pattern of life" before bombing a house where insurgents have taken refuge. >> does it frustrate you as an air commander the fact that there is less relevance for the impact of what you do or what your pilots -- >> it is actually more relevant. i mean bringing in ...