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Ring True BY Yemi Adebowale  Email: yemi.adebowale@thisdaylive.com  Phone 08054699539 339. As at press time, that’s the number of students from three schools languishing in the dungeons of bandits in Niger, Kebbi and Kaduna states. There are hundreds of others from unrecorded abductions, still with kidnappers. Hundreds of children are being abused in forests and all we get are rhetoric from a lame federal government that controls all the security agencies in the country. While we sleep in the comfort of our rooms, hundreds of our children are with beasts in the forests. The latest additio...

Jul 4, 2021 Shehu Rekep, deputy of an armed group of "bandits" in Nigeria’s northwestern Zamfara state, contends they have taken up crime because government hasn't protected their livelihood as herders. In seven months, bandits and terrorist groups have demanded more than N307 million as ransom from the families of kidnap victims. The figure is the ransom demanded by kidnappers from school attacks in northern Nigeria. The northern region of the country has witnessed a plethora of kidnappings by bandits, with the abduction of school children becoming a recurring theme. No fewer than 947 stud...

Muyiwa Adekeye, the special adviser on media and communication to the governor, had remained mum when Daily Trust sought explanation on the governor’s action. However, in an interview with BBC Pidgin, after publication of the story, El-Rufai said his son had been targeted by bandits because of his public stance against the payment of ransom. In the interview, El-Rufai said it was the first time he would address the issue. He added that his daughter, Nesrin, was also enrolled in the school when she turned six. He said although there was no threat to Nesrin, both children were removed from ...

RingTrue BY Yemi Adebowale Email: yemi.adebowale@thisdaylive.com Those we have elected to protect us at the state and federal levels are persistently busy complaining and shifting blames instead of taking no-nonsense action to tame raging insecurity across Nigeria. People who took oaths to shield Nigerians persistently tell us that bandits, killer herders and kidnapper ravaging the country are foreigners as if our law says foreign criminals in Nigeria must not be tackled. Even those sitting in Abuja are echoing this nonsense. Governor Abubakar Sani-Bello of Niger State, in whose jurisdiction ...

SaharaReporters gathered that a student was also killed while others sustained injuries during the attack on Thursday night.