Abductors Of Kankara Students Finally Communicate Demands
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The abductors of hundreds of schoolboys in Kankara community, Katsina State, northwest Nigeria, have made first contact with a set of demands, according to the state governor, Aminu Masari.
The governor disclosed this on Monday during a visit to President Muhammadu Buhari’s family home in Daura.
Over 300 schoolboys were missing after a group of armed men attacked Government Science Secondary School Kankara Local Government Area on Friday night.
It was one of the largest abductions to take place in Nigeria in recent history.
Garba Shehu, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, disclosed in a statement after Masari’s meeting with the president that negotiations were on with the abductors.
Shehu quoted the governor as saying that the abductors had made contact and discussions were already on, regarding the safe return of the missing schoolboys.
According to the statement, Masari also disclosed that the security agencies had identified the location of the abducted students.
He expressed optimism that their release would be secured.
The governor noted that President Buhari was committed to the rescue of the Kankara schoolboys, adding that it was appropriate to brief him on rescue efforts.
Travails of Mama Boko Haram: Why She Is Held In Prison Since February
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Seated outside the dock in a Maiduguri courtroom, her entire body veiled from head-to-toe with her typical adornment of niqab that leaves only a tiny opening for her pair of eyes glasses, Aisha Wakil, aka Mama Boko Haram (mother to Boko Haram)
listened calmly as the judge read out the ruling on a request by her lawyer who had earlier prayed the court to grant her bail.
Service Chiefs No Longer Needed, Says Shettima As Sultan Asks Military To Occupy Lake Chad
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Federal lawmaker and immediate past Borno state governor, Kashim Shettima, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to sack the service chiefs immediately as they are no longer needed in the war against the insurgency.
In an interview with Arise TV, Shettima said the first two years of President Buhari’s administration saw improvements in the security sector but it subsequently deteriorated.
Nigeria’s Terror King, Shekau, Connects East, West And Centre In A Puzzling Agenda
Published on July 12, 2020
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Scorned and underrated, Abubakar Shekau, the leader of #BokoHaram is currently pulling a massive stealth strategy in an organisational makeover destined to connect the northeast, the north-west and the north-central in a bewildering expansionist agenda.
Defined by welcoming former apostates; engaging in factional reconciliations; admitting of modest ideological shifts; and proposing a balanced role for clerics and combatants in his group,
Boko Haram has confirmed that it was responsible for the abduction of over 300 students from Kankara, Katsina State, last Friday, and says it has yet to declare the conditions for their release, contrary to reports.
The terror group’s leader, Abubakar Shekau, stated this in a 4:28 long recording released in the wee hours of Tuesday and obtained by #HumAngle.
Nigeria Deploys Air, Ground Forces In Search Of Abducted School Boys
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Nigerian Army has deployed ground and aerial forces in search of the secondary school boys abducted Friday night by some terrorists from their school, the Government Science Secondary School in Kankara
Local Government Area of Katsina State, northwest Nigeria, according to Garba Shehu, the presidential spokesperson.
The Nigerian Air Force, a few years ago commissioned the 213 Forward Operating Base (FOB) in Katsina and the Quick Response Wing (QRW) Daura.
Since 2014, several communities in some of the states in the Northwest of Nigeria have witnessed aggravated plunder and killings. Nigerians and non-Nigerians have been massacred in unrestrained orgy within these locations.
From Kaduna to Sokoto, Katsina to Zamfara and Kebbi, it has been a cauldron of beastly killings.
In the run-up to the 2015 general elections, Zamfara state became the epicentre of the daily horror. The killings soon spread to Katsina state with some intensity.