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Gunmen on motorcycles targeted Salihu Tanko Islamic School on Sunday, killing one person and abducting three teachers as well, said school owner Umar Idris

Nigeria tries to negotiate return of 136 kidnapped students Officials have confirmed the number of children taken by gunmen from a school in northern Nigeria. The state government is in contact with the kidnappers. Parents have called on the government to help secure the release of their children Nigerian authorities are attempting to secure the return of 136 kidnapped students, they announced on Thursday. It is the latest in a series of recent abductions for ransom in northern Nigeria. How were the children kidnapped? An armed group stormed the Salihu Tanko Islamic School on motorcycles, k...

BOOK REVIEW Ben Tomoloju The renascence of African culture is supposed to be as all-encompassing as it is dynamic. Its banner was borne aloft during the years of nationalist struggles by the then political titans. Alongside the assertion of the negritude writers whose poetry was described by Leopold Sedar Senghor as a means of revitalising and re-invigorating the African heritage, his Nigerian counterpart, Nnamdi Azikiwe, was who sensitised the public with the idea of re-nascent Africa. An example, and a highly significant one for that matter, is the multi-faceted, monumental scholarly output...