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MAN IN THE NEWS: Ahmad Gumi, the unofficial kakaki of bandits May 06 Gumi. Whenever the four-lettered name crops up in the news, more often than not, what follows is an avalanche of banditry romanticisation: painting the gun-wielding criminals as ‘victims of circumstance’; shushing the media not to bark at bandits but to address them with “nice words”; blaming the government and the system for their decision to make ‘kidnap for ransom’ a thriving industry. Advertisement Ahmad Gumi, a prominent Islamic cleric, has for the past few months positioned himself as the unofficial spokesm...

Kaduna govt confirms release of 27 kidnapped students, keeps mum on ransom payment The state confirmed their release in a statement signed by the it's Commissioner for Home Affairs and Internal Security. The Kaduna State Government has confirmed the release of the 27 students of Federal College of Forestry Mechanization, Afaka. PREMIUM TIMES had earlier broke the news, reporting that the students were on their way to the state capital. However, the state confirmed their release in a statement signed by the state’s Commissioner for Home Affairs and Internal Security, Samuel Aruwan, but kep...

Punch Newspapers Sections The PUNCH has learnt. It was also gathered that the hoodlums whisked the students into the forest shortly after they ambushed them while journeying on a bus along Okigwe-Uturu Road. The Commissioner for Information in the state, John Kalu, confirmed the development in a statement on Thursday, saying that two of the students escaped from the clutches of the hoodlums while others were still being held hostage by the criminals. The statement read, “Abia State Government is currently monitoring an incident that happened in Okigwe, Imo State, yesterday which led to the ...

Daily Post Nigeria Published Six years after retired Major General Muhammadu Buhari a Fulani Moslem from Daura, Katsina State, near Niger Republic, took oath of office twice, he has misled the Country into becoming one of the most troubled sovereign entities in the entire World. Aside pushing Nigeria into the inglorious index as the capital of poverty in the World about two years ago, the President has serially failed to adopt proactive and workable strategic defence mechanisms to protect and defend Nigeria and Nigerians from external infiltrators and internal insurgents. Nigeria has also bec...

Daily Trust gathered reliably that the release of the students was delayed even after payment of ransom last month because the bandits insisted on the release of one of their own arrested by the police. The identified bandit, whose name was given simply as Laulu, was moved to Kaduna from a police facility in Kano on Tuesday ahead of the prisoner swap. The negotiations suffered setbacks after the abductor, known as Buderu, reneged on his promise even after payment of the agreed sum. Daily Trust learnt that father of one Buhari, alias General, who is also a fierce bandit had to be brought in to...