By Ibrahim Abdul’Aziz, Regional Correspondent _____ Police assisted by local volunteers  in Katsina State have rescued eighty-four victims of kidnap mostly Islamiyya school children from the hands of bandits in Mahuta village of Dandume Local Government Area of the state. This follows a distress call received on Saturday by the DPO Dandume, that some Islamiyya Students of Hizburrahim Islamiyya, Mahuta village, numbering about eighty, were attacked while on their way back from Maulud occasion celebrated...

The acting Eje of Ankpa in Ankpa local government area of Kogi state, Shuaibu Usman was kidnapped by an outlaw while observing prayers in the Mosque on Friday. Addressing the incident, Ayuba Ede, the state commissioner of police, said the suspected kidnappers laid an ambush at the mosque before the abduction. He also said they are yet to make any contact with the family, but added that the police have cordoned off all entry and...

A Coalition of Northern Groups condemned president Buhari over his inability to secure the northern region from the spate of attacks. In a statement, the spokesperson for the Coalition, Abdul-Azeez Suleiman, stated that banditry, kidnapping and terrorism is disrupting the peace of the region. He noted that farmers in the region have abandoned their farmlands uncultivated due to insecurity. The statement reads, “At the risk of overstating the case, we can unhesitatingly assert that the...

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 spoke in Hausa, said it was not a coincidence that the bandits struck on the very day he visited his...