Tag: Islamiyya students
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Freed Islamiyya students recount ordeals: ’88 Days of beatings, hunger…four days trek to freedom’
The bandits who kidnapped scores of Islamic school pupils in Niger State beat them daily and threatened to kill them if their families did not pay the ransom demanded, some of the students have said. TheNewsGuru (TNG) reported the kidnap of over 90 pupils on May 30 at the Salihu Tanko Islamiyya School in Tegina,…
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Bandits free 100 Islamiyya students three months after abduction
Gunmen have freed around 100 pupils kidnapped from an Islamic seminary in Niger State nearly three months ago, the school’s head teacher said on Thursday. The head teacher, Abubakar Alhassan, did not, however, say if any ransom was paid. He did not give any details about how the pupils were released. Heavily armed criminals snatched…