Aremu Hails Buhari’s Speech, Jan-December Budget Cycle
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By Ibrahim HassanWuyo
The new year speech of President Muhammadu Buhari had rekindled hope that the economic, security and health challenges of 2020 would be overcome in the new year.
Comrade Issa Aremu, a Member of National Institute and Vice President of IndustriAll Global Union made this observation in his 2021 New Year Message .
The labour leader said it was “presidential” and “a mark of statesmanship” for President Buhari to have agreed with most Nigerians that 2020 “was a tough year” with “..a lot of challenges ranging from security and economic issues”.
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Revealed: Kankara schoolboys say kidnappers demanded N344m for their release – Report
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The 334 released Kankara schoolboys has again made a shocking revelation that the gunmen who kidnapped them demanded 344 million Naira, (One million per hand), before they could be released, Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reports.
The schoolboys according to WSJ said that 30 million naira was paid initially but their abductors threatened to release only 30 of them if N344m is not paid.
“Three boys said their kidnappers told them they were initially paid 30 million naira, equivalent to around $76,000, but decided not to release the boys because they had demanded 344 million naira 1 per head.
Our kidnappers demanded N344m, N1m per head, say Katsina schoolboys Our kidnappers demanded N344m, N1m per head, say Katsina schoolboys
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Abducted schoolboys of Government Science Secondary School, Kankara, Katsina State have said that their kidnappers demanded a total of N344million naira – N1million per head – before they were released, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reports.
It would be recalled that all the 344 schoolboys were released on Thursday, December 17, 2020, by the bandits who had kidnapped them on Friday, December 11, 2020.
Controversy has, however, trailed the claim that ransom was not paid by the Nigerian authorities to secure the release of the schoolboys.
Freed pupils in Nigeria tell of ordeal with kidnappers
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A group of schoolboys pictured on December 18 following their release after they were kidnapped last week in Katsina, Nigeria. More than 300 boys were taken in an attack on their school. Photo / AP
Daily Telegraph UK
By: Ibrahim Ayyuba Isah in Katsina and Will Brown, Africa Correspondent
Rayyanu had just finished studying, and was settling down for the night at his boarding school in northwestern Nigeria when he heard the gunshots. At first, we thought they were going into town. Then we realised they had invaded our school. Almost 10 of them came [into the room] with guns and told us to go outside. There were about 200 gunmen. They took us away, the teenage boy told the Sunday Telegraph after his escape.
‘They threatened to slaughter us’: Escaped Nigerian schoolboys relive mass kidnapping
No one knows exactly how many children were abducted but suddenly 344 of the abducted boys were released on Thursday
19 December 2020 • 5:24pm
A father is reunited with his son in Katsina Nigeria Friday Dec. 18, 2020.
Credit: Sunday Alamba
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Rayyanu had just finished studying and was settling down for the night at his boarding school in northwestern Nigeria when he heard the gunshots.
“At first we thought they were going into town. Then we realised they had invaded our school. Almost 10 of them came [into the room] with guns and told us to go outside.”