YOLA —The Adamawa State Government has reviewed the curfew regime imposed on the three Council areas of Yola North, Yola South, and Girei following the activities of Shila Boys and other Miscreants in the society using Tricycles and Motorcycles. Inhabitants of the affected local governments have been observing the curfew from 11 pm to 5am during the Ramadan period, but now the curfew has been reviewed to commence from 10 pm to 5am with immediate...

The Kebbi state government has shut down seven schools indefinitely in the wake of the armed attack on Federal Government College, Birnin Yauri on Thursday. Kebbi, Isah Arzika, Chairman Nigerian Union of Teachers NUT Kebbi state wing who has confirmed this and that the school is located on the frontlines of the areas prone to bandit attacks. In the latest attack on Federal Government College FGC Yauri, students and three teachers were abducted from the...

The Head of Vigilante of Zuru Emirate in Kebbi state, John Mani, on Saturday, said the bandits that abducted the students of Federal Government College Birnin Yauri, suffered a heavy casualty, saying over 80 of them have been killed. Bandits numbering 150 were reported to have broken into the school on Thursday and made away with a yet-to-be ascertained number of students. Mani, in a telephone interview, said the bandits were killed in the ‘Insen...

Nigerian Army troops operating under the auspices of Operation Hadarin Daji have engaged kidnappers and bandits in a gun battle following the abduction of students of the Federal Government College, Yawuri, Kebbi State, have rescued two teachers and five students after an exchange of fire with the criminals. Brigadier General Onyema Nwachukwu, the Director, Army Public Relations, in a statement, said the rescue followed an initial encounter with the abductors in the early hours of...