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News of the release of the 27 kidnapped students of the Federal College of Forestry Mechanisation, Afaka, Kaduna State, no doubt, calls for celebration. These students spent 50 good days in the camp of their captors. We saw them being beaten and assaulted in a trending video released by their kidnappers.  It doesn’t matter if two of the 29 students said to be in the bandits’ enclave after their abduction on March 11, 2021 are yet to be accounted for. As sad as this is, it seems to be of little relevance now.  Apparently, the wave of euphoria around the release of the majority has oversh...

Punch Newspapers Sections Published 13 May 2021 A security expert, Dr Ona Ekhomu, has asked state governments to develop a kidnap contingency plan to manage all aspects of mass abduction of school students. In a statement in Lagos on Wednesday, Ekhomu, who is the National President of the Association of Industrial Security and Safety Operators of Nigeria, condemned the handling of the abduction of the 39 students of the Federal College of Forestry Mechanisation, Afaka, Kaduna State, saying government officials were not sensitive to the psychological and emotional stress the victims’ parents...

By Onyebuchi Ezigbo A former Chief Executive Officer of the Nigeria Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), Prof. Usman Yusuf, has advocated a non-military solution to battle the insecurity bedeviling the country. Yusuf, who said he played a key role along with former President Olusegun Obasanjo and Muslim cleric, Sheik Abubakar Gumi, in negotiating freedom for the 27 abducted students of the Federal College of Forestry Mechanisation, Afaka, in Kaduna State, spoke yesterday on ‘The Morning Show,’ a programme on ARISE NEWS CHANNEL, the broadcast arm of THISDAY newspapers. Speaking on what he...

Gunmen had on March 12, 2021 invaded the institution and abducted 39 students, including a pregnant woman.

In recent months, bandits have initiated a series of attacks and kidnappings in various states, making governance difficult for those in power and heightening the degree of insecurity in the country. Students of secondary and tertiary levels of education have become the major victims of these acts of banditry.Some of the schools which have witnessed attacks in the past few months include Government Science College, Kagara in Niger; Government Girls Secondary School, Jangebe in Zamfara; Federal College of Forestry Mechanisation and Greenfield University, both in Kaduna; and recently, Abia Stat...