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Mass abduction: Student recounts near-death experience before escape • Bandit assisted me to escape – JSS student • Zamfara shuts boarding schools Our Correspondents The Nigeria Union of Teachers on Tuesday threatened to embark on a nationwide strike following continued threat to lives of its members and students. The Secretary-General of the NUT, Dr Mike Ene, stated this in a statement in Abuja while reacting to the abduction of 333 students of the Government Science Secondary School,  Kankara, Katsina State and other cases in the country. Ene said this just as one of the abducted stu...

*More students appearing from the bushes-Masari’s aide *We thought the bandits were policemen — escapee *Boko Haram claims responsibility for Kankara school kidnapping *Pay ransom, free our children from bandits – Grieving parent begs FG *PDP blasts FG over Kankara abduction *APC charges security agencies to dig deeper, do better *Teachers threaten to shutdown schools By Omeiza Ajayi, Bashir Bello, Ibrahim HassanWuyo, Joseph Erunke & Dirisu Yakubu A grieving parent, Aminu Dayyabu, whose son, Aminu Faruq is among the missing children from Friday’s attack on Government Science Senior Se...

•17 schoolboys escaped, says Masari •Jigawa, Zamfara close schools •Senate summons defence minister, service chiefs, others Kingsley Nwezeh, Chuks Okocha, Adedayo Akinwale, in Abuja, John Shiklam in Kaduna and Francis Sardauna in Katsina The military is considering many options, including seeking external help, to rescue over 300 schoolboys of Government Science Secondary School (GSSS) Kankara, Katsina State. A top military officer confided in THISDAY yesterday that one of the options being considered is for the federal government to seek assistance from the United States Africa Command...

In Katsina, the forest cuts across the seven local governments of Jibia, Safana, Batsari, Danmusa, Sabuwa, Dandume, Faskari. In each of the place it passes, it is called by a different name but generally, it is called Rugu, after a community in Safana LGA. An elderly man who knows the terrain very well told our reporter that the forest has been partitioned by bandits who control different segments. “The forest has six ranges, four of which are in our domain. The forest boasts of several water outlets and streams. There are 18 dams that were established since the late Sardauna’s time,” h...

Channels Television     Katsina State Governor Aminu Masari has disclosed that 17 of the missing schoolboys kidnapped from a Government Science Secondary School (GSSS) in Kankara Local Government Area of the state have escaped from captivity. Governor Masari who disclosed this in an interview on Monday evening said the schoolboys were found and have been reunited with their families. He added that efforts have been intensified to rescue the remaining schoolboys still in captivity, safely. “As at today (Monday), information available to me shows that 17 of the missing children have been fo...