Tag: Abduction
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Abduction: Gov.Bagudu visits school, pledges support to security agencies
Gov. Atiku Bagudu of Kebbi on Friday night pledged to support security agencies in the fight against banditry across the state. Bagudu gave the pledge while addressing parents, staff and students of Federal Government College (FGC) Birnin Yauri, during a sympathy visit to the college. The governor assured that his administration would leave no stone…
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Islamiyya school abduction: We are averse to payment of ransom – Niger Govt
By Emman Ovuakporie The Niger State Commissioner for Information, Mohammed Sani Idris has said the state in its usual practice is averse to payment of ransom and the abduction of Islamiyya school students too is not going to be an exception. In a report monitored by TNG on national television, the commissioner said “in this…
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Buhari issues order on abduction of students from Niger school
President Muhammadu Buhari has charged the nation’s security and intelligence agencies to expedite efforts towards the recovery of the 200 children kidnapped from an Islamic school in Niger State. DAILY POST had reported that bandits attacked Islamiyya School at Tegina in Rafi Local Government Area of Niger State at the weekend and kidnapped about 200…
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Man reports abduction of seven Rivers travelers on radio
Gunmen suspected to be kidnappers have seized a commercial bus with seven passengers on its way to Omoku in Rivers State. The gunmen were said to have invaded the bus on Sunday around 8pm and whisked the passengers to an unknown destination. A relation of one of the victims, who gave his name simply as…
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Nigeria should shut down should another school abduction occur – Soyinka
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 the government and security agencies have failed Nigerians, said he did not know what else to recommend as panacea to the nation’s “abnormal times.” The octogenarian…
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Zamfara bandits I met not responsible for Jangebe school girls abduction – Gumi
Kaduna based Islamic scholar Sheikh Ahmad Gumi has reacted to the latest abduction in Zamfara State. The cleric said abductors of the Zamfara schoolgirls were not the bandits he recently engaged with in Zamfara forests. TheNewsGuru.com, TNG reports that the bandits stormed Government Secondary School Jangebe in Talata Mafara Local Government Area around 1 am…
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How we will secure abducted Niger school students, others – Defence Minister
Minister of Defence, Major General Bashir Magashi has assured that the school children kidnapped in Niger state by armed bandits will be rescued, saying the government will adopt the same strategy it used to rescue the school children earlier kidnapped in Katsina. Speaking with newsmen on the sideline of the screening of Service Chiefs by…
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Abduction of schoolboys on my visiting day to Katsina meant to embarrass my administration – Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari said on Friday that the abduction of 344 students of Government Science Secondary School, Kankara in Katsina State, was targeted at embarrassing his administration. Buhari made the statement when he met with the rescued Kankara students and representatives of their parents at the Banquet Hall of Government House, Katsina. The president, who…
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NDDC Crisis: Why I stopped Nunieh’s ‘abduction’ by over 50 police officers from IG’s monitoring team – Wike
Rivers Governor Nyesom Wike has explained he intervened in the alleged police invasion of the residence of a former acting Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) Dr Joy Nunieh to save her from abduction. Wike, in a statement by the Commissioner for Information and Communucation, Paulinus Nsirim, called on the Inspector-General of…
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Delta doctors set date to commence strike over abduction of colleague at General Hospital
Members of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), Delta state chapter are set to commence a phased strike over the abduction of their colleague, Dr. Wisdom Iboyitete, at the General Hospital, Ojobo in Burutu council area, last Monday. A statement signed by the NMA state chairman and secretary, Dr. Ekeneam Omo and Dr. Jude Ugbechie, said…