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Unlike previous weeks, there were less killings in the North-west which has been under attacks by bandits.

Abdurrahman Aliyu, a resident of Dutsen Reme who spoke to PREMIUM TIMES on the phone said struck the Low-Cost area after midnight and began shooting sporadically.

Many public schools in Kano State are operating in wood and zinc classrooms, exposing students to rain, harmattan and dust. In this eighth report on the conditions of public schools in the state, Abdulmalik Lukman writes that the appalling situation of the schools is exacerbated by a lack of competent teachers.

Punch Newspapers Sections   Influential Islamic cleric, Sheikh Abubakar Gumi, said on Saturday that the kidnapped Kagara schoolchildren might be released today. Bandits, donning military uniform, had around 2am on Wednesday invaded Government Science College, Kagara, Niger State and whisked away 27 pupils and 15 staff members after killing a Senior Secondary School 3 pupil. The incident has created nationwide agitation and worries over the safety of the kidnapped pupils and school staff members, who were whisked away into the bush by the bandits. In an interview on Saturday, Gumi, who has be...

Amid anxiety over the fate of abducted students of Government College, Kagara, Niger State, bandits struck again in neigbourbing Katsina State, abducting a monarch and 13 others in two separate attacks.