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Nigerian police say gunmen have abducted more than 70 students in the country’s northwest, in the latest in a series of school attacks targeting pupils. Zamfara state police spokesman Mohammed Shehu said in a statement that a large group of attackers stormed the Government Day Secondary School in the remote village of Kaya on Wednesday […]
Armed men abduct 15 students and four staff members from an agricultural college in the northwestern Nigerian state of Zamfara, police said on Monday. During the attack late on Sunday night, the gunmen exchanged fire with a security team protecting the college, resulting in the deaths of one police officer and two guards, according to […]
Armed gunmen killed 53 people in northwest Nigeria’s Zamfara state, according to police, the latest violence to hit the region. Many motorcycle-riding assailants known locally as bandits on Thursday through Friday raided the villages of Kadawa, Kwata, Maduba, Ganda Samu, Saulawa and Askawa in the Zurmi district, AFP reported. The gang shot residents, attacked farmers in […]
About 279 Nigerian girls kidnapped from their boarding school in the northern state of Zamfara have been released. The governor of the state said the girls arrived on government premises in the state capital Gusau on Tuesday. “I am happy to announce that the girls are free,” Dr. Bello Matawalle told AFP. “They have just […]
Over 300 school girls have been kidnapped by unidentified gunmen from a school in Nigeria’s north-western Zamfara state, police said. Security officers have been dispatched to the town of Jangebe where the girls were seized early on Friday morning. Group of gunmen arrived at the Government Girls Secondary School with pick-up vehicles and motorcycles, a […]