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Nigerian President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Friday sent troops to rescue more than 250 pupils kidnapped by gunmen from a school in the country's northwest in one of the largest mass abductions in three years.
The police spokesperson in the state, Ahmad Rufa'i, later confirmed that 15 pupils and a woman were abducted in the incident.
It will appear that, under Tinubu, Nigeria has entered its season of kidnap epidemic again. In the paper under discourse, Verjee and Kwaja made some recommendations that I found to be very profound. The first is that successive Nigerian governments have conflated the social challenge of kidnap for security challenges and as such, have solely treated school abductions as security problems which needed to be solved solely by military response. Government does this by fortifying the schools.
The House of Representatives on Thursday urged President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to act on the recent United Nations Special report on the ongoing security
The deputy governor assured the people of Katsina State that the days of the bandits are numbered as the current security operations...