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Over 280 pupils and teachers of Government Secondary School and LEA primary school at Kuriga, Kaduna State were abducted by bandits on Thursday, triggering national outrage. The Jama’atu Nasril Islam, Amnesty International, the Parent Teacher Association of Nigeria, the Nigeria Union of Teachers, and the House of Representatives condemned the attack and asked the government to rescue the victims immediately The bandits reportedly invaded the Kuriga area of the Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State on Thursday, shooting at their victims before taking away at least 280 of the…

The National Assembly, particularly the Senate, has declared very disturbing, unfortunate, and sad the killing of over 50 people in fresh attacks on some communities in Benue State by suspected terrorists and unabated security challenges across the country. It also urged the service chiefs and heads of other security agencies to, as a matter of urgency, deploy security personnel to address the continuing and ongoing attacks by armed terrorists parading as herdsmen on communities in Kwande, Ukum, Logo, and Katsina-Ala Local Government Areas of Benue State to flush them out…

A mother of three children has allegedly committed suicide in Enugu State over what some sources attributed to the unbearable economic hardship and rising cost of living in the country. It was gathered that the incident happened on Saturday, March 2. The woman, whose identity had yet to be ascertained, had gone to the Ogui Police Station in the Enugu North Local Government Area of the state and reportedly dropped her three kids, without leaving a word with anyone. An eyewitness who refused to be mentioned said that the middle-aged…

Following the looting of food warehouses in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, on Sunday, by suspected hoodlums, the police have beefed up security at the warehouses belonging to the National Emergency Management Agency nationwide. This was as soldiers foiled an attempt to raid a factory warehouse at the Idu Industrial District, Jabi, Abuja, on Sunday morning, arresting five of the attackers. Footage of the incident showed the arrested suspects lying on the ground as armed soldiers stood over them. The factory was involved in the production, processing, and packaging of…

A couple, a former soldier and a printer, have been arrested by the Zone 2 Police Command, Onikan, Lagos, for allegedly producing fake currencies. Police paraded the suspects, including the couple, aged 50 and 46, at the command’s headquarters on Friday in Lagos. The Zonal Public Relations Officer, Tunni Ayuba, who spoke on behalf of the Assistant Inspector-General of Police in charge of the zone, Mr Olatoye Durosinmi, said that the arrest of the printer led to the arrest of the couple and the former soldier. Ayuba said the team…