Following the Friday abduction of over 300 school children in Jangebe in Zamfara State, Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, on Saturday warned Nigerians against accepting kidnapping of school children in parts of the north as a way of life. Soyinka who lamented that
Seven out of the 317 school girls abducted by bandits at Government Girls Science Secondary School, Jangebe have escaped. A source Jangebe town confirmed to The Nation on Friday evening the girls returned home from their captors. Seven out of the 317 school girls abducted
The Zamfara State Police Command in Collaboration with the military have commenced a joint search and rescue operations with a view to rescuing the kidnapped 317 Zamfara students. The girls, students of Government Girls Science Secondary School Jangebe in Talata Mafara LGA were
• Shun ethnic profiling President Muhammadu Buhari promised Nigerians on Thursday that bandits, criminals and kidnappers will continue to be dealt with by security agents. “The Government shall continue to deal with insurgents, bandits, kidnappers and other criminals who constitute a threat to
Suspected bandits in Hilux vehicles and a number of motorcycles in security unfroms have abducted over 300 students of GSS Jangebe in Talatar Mafara local government area of Zamfara. They stormed the school around 1am on Friday. The Nation gathered the first batch
…says, time to treat criminals as criminals, not profiled President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday ruled out the possibility of the Federal Government’s readiness to grant amnesty to armed criminals terrorising the country, saying his government will continue to deal decisively with bandits, kidnappers
Armed bandits on Saturday evening launched another attack on Gurmana Ward in Shiroro local government area of Niger state. The Nation learnt that over 15 people are suspected to have drowned in River Kaduna as they tried to escape from the bandits attack.
The Federal Government has declared it won’t pay ransom to secure the release of abducted students and teachers of Government Science College, Kagara in Niger State. Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, stated this on Saturday while featuring on Channels Television’s ‘Sunrise
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) on Friday obtained the permission of a Federal High Court in Abuja to destroy forfeited narcotics drugs and psychotropic substances, weighing 15.660kg and valued at about N150million. Justice Inyang Ekwo in a ruling on Friday, granted
The news making rounds about the release of the Kagara students are rumors and speculations, Niger state Governor, Alhaji Abubakar Sani Bello has said. He said that no victim have been released but he is hopeful that they would be released anytime soon.