By TOSI ORE SIX real estate marketers from Lagos were abducted in Ogun State on Friday while inspecting a parcel of land in Oyebola village, Obafemi-Owode Local Government Area. The team had travelled to the community to assess the property ahead of a marketing campaign when gunmen attacked, the Ogun State Police Command confirmed on […]
By TOSI ORE Behind Tinubu’s ‘Aerial Siege’ — Fresh Abductions, Tactical Failures, and a Corridor of Impunity Widening Across Three States THE Tinubu administration entered the week determined to project strength. The rescue of 24 schoolgirls in Kebbi State and 38 church worshippers in Kwara State was framed as evidence that […]
By HAUWA MAGANA FIFTY of the more than 300 students abducted from St. Mary’s Catholic Primary and Secondary Schools in Papiri, Niger State, have escaped and reunited with their parents, the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) reported on Sunday. The pupils fled between Friday and Saturday, according to Daniel Atori, media aide to CAN […]
By HALIMA TAKWAS THE Niger State Government has condemned the abduction of pupils from St. Mary’s School in the Papiri community of Agwara Local Government Area, blaming the incident on the school’s failure to comply with a prior security directive. In a statement issued on Friday, Secretary to the State Government, Abubakar Usman, said authorities […]
By MAHMOOD MALIK MUSA (M.M.M.) IBRAHIM THE Northern States Governors’ Forum (NSGF) has condemned the attack on Government Girls’ Comprehensive Senior Secondary School, Maga, in Kebbi State, where bandits killed the school’s Vice Principal and abducted 25 female students. In a statement from Gombe, the Forum’s Chairman and Governor of Gombe State, Inuwa Yahaya, […]