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Bandits run rampage in Kaduna, attack army base in Birnin Gwari, kill 15 Nigerian soldiers, sources say

Gunmen killed 15 Nigerian soldiers and wounded more than a dozen others during an attack on an army base in the northern state of Kaduna, two army sources said on Tuesday, in the latest attack on security forces by armed gangs. The gangs, designated as terrorists by the government, have caused havoc in northwest Nigeria Read More…

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Kidnappers release 10 students of Bethel Baptist School

Ten more students who were kidnapped two months ago from Bethel Baptist High School in Kaduna State have gained their freedom according to the school administrator. The Reverend John Hayab, the administrator of the school, told Reuters News Agency that 21 students from the school remained in captivity. He revealed that an undisclosed ransom was Read More…

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Weak and tattered, 29 students freed in Nigeria’s Kaduna

Kidnappers have released the remaining 29 students they were holding captive on Wednesday, nearly two months after abducting them from a forestry college in Nigeria’s Kaduna state. Gunmen took 39 students from the Federal College of Forestry Mechanization in northwest Nigeria on March 11 and previously released 10 of them. The newly released students arrived Read More…

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Nigeria university kidnappers shoot dead 3 captive students, says state official

In picture above: A military truck arrives at Greenfield University after gunmen kidnapped students in Kaduna, Nigeria April 21, 2021. REUTERS/Bosan Yakusak Gunmen have shot dead three students they abducted from a northern Nigerian university, a state security official said on Friday, though the kidnappers still hold an unknown number of captives. On Tuesday, armed Read More…