Thirty children abducted by bandits at Kasai village in the Batsari Local Government Area of Katsina State have been freed. The Police Public Relations Officer of the Katsina State Police Command, ASP Abubakar Sadiq, confirmed this to our correspondent today, reports Channels TV. He noted that their release followed a concerted effort by the c...
•Bandits At least thirty children are believed to have been kidnapped by suspected bandits at Kasai village in Batsari Local Government Area of Katsina State. Batsari is one of several Security Frontline Local Government Areas in Katsina State where activities of bandits, and other criminal elements have been on the increase almost on a daily ...
•Troops Nigerian Defence Headquarters has confirmed that 137 of the kidnapped Kaduna school children, comprising 76 females and 61 males, were successfully rescued. The Defence headquarters in a statement by the Director of Defence Media Operations, Major General Edward Buba, said the students were rescued in Zamfara State and will be transpor...
Hundreds of women and children of Okuama community, Ewu Kingdom, in Ughelli South Local Government Area, Delta State, who fled for dear lives when troops of the Nigerian Army invaded the community over the killing of 17 soldiers last Friday have been stranded for six days without food in the forests. This came as Delta […]
In Nigeria, the issue of out-of-school children is a major concern, leaving countless young minds without access to education. Recent data from The Cable Index sheds light on the severity of this crisis, revealing the top three states grappling with the highest percentages of out-of-school children. Kebbi, Sokoto, and Yobe stand out with alarm...
•Oloyede-Asanike In the wake of the recent passing of the Olubadan of Ibadan land, Oba Lekan Balogun, one of the princes of Ibadan land, Mr Asawale Oloyede-Asanike has decried that sons and daughters of late Ibadan kings are too quick to be overlooked, forgotten once their father passed away. Rather, he demanded the Central Council […]...
•Bulama Bukarti Bulama Bukarti, a security analyst, has said that the best way to rescue the abducted schoolchildren in Kaduna and Sokoto states is to deploy ground troops. On March 8, bandits invaded the LEA Primary and Junior Secondary School, Kuriga in Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State and abducted at least 312 students […...
•The suspected kidnapper with the rescued pupils The Lagos State Police Command has arrested a suspected child kidnapper in the Ijegun area of Lagos. An unidentified 40-year-old woman was arrested on Monday following a distress call by the headmaster of the school that some unknown persons invaded the school and abducted three students on the ...
•Adeleke Osun State governor, Ademola Adeleke, has uncovered plans to kidnap schoolchildren and disrupt farm activities in the state. He disclosed that the plot includes disruptions of rural activities with a focus on farmers and farming work, reports Vanguard. In a statement issued by his spokesperson, Olawale Rasheed, today, he said intellig...
•The burnt Muna Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camp in the Muna area of Borno State Tragedy struck in Borno today as fire gutted the Muna Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camp in the Muna area of the North-Eastern state. The incident that happened in the Muna Alamdari IDP camp in Maiduguri led to the loss of […]
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