No fewer than 214 persons were killed in separate violence such as terrorist attacks, communal clashes, and reprisals across the Kaduna state from January to March 2023. The figure was contained in the First Quarter 2023 Security Quarterly Report presented to the State Security Council by the Kaduna State Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Samuel Aruwan. The commissioner gave the breakdown of the casualties as 196 males, 14 females, and four minors, while...

The eight abducted female students of Government Secondary School, Awon, Kachia Local Government Area of Kaduna State, who have spent almost 14 days in captivity in a thick forest bordering Kaduna and Niger states have escaped from their abductors’ den. But the commissioner said on Tuesday that the students escaped from the kidnapper’s den after spending almost 14 days with their captors in a thick forest bordering Kaduna and Niger states. According to Commissioner for...