The Concerned Parents and Educators Network, led by Yinka Ogunde, has facilitated the construction and furnishing of a house for a teacher living with disability, Audu Jiya. According to Ogunde, the CPEN, which was founded four years ago, embraced Jiya…
Peter Obi embraced politics out of sacrifice —Babangida Aliyu
A former Governor of Niger State, Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu, has stated that Former Governor Peter Obi, an already accomplished corporate leader and successful businessman, went into politics to make society better. Aliyu made the remark when Obi paid a courtesy…
*Recall our husbands from Niger, MOPOLs’ wives tell Lagos CP (Vanguard)*Lagos inaugurates programme to prevent childhood blindness among students (Punch)
Recall our husbands from Niger, MOPOLs’ wives tell Lagos CP (Vanguard) Wives of Mobile policemen who were posted on special duty to Niger State, staged a protest at the Lagos State Police Command yesterday, over what they described as undue…
Gunmen kidnap Niger commissioner of information
Mr Mohammed Idris, Niger State Commissioner of Information and Strategy, was on Sunday kidnapped by gunmen at Baban Tunga Village of Tarfa Local Government Area of the state. The Secretary to the State Government, Alhaji Ahmed Matane, disclosed this to…
1 killed, 200 Islamiyya students abducted in Niger
About 200 students of an Islamiyya school located at Tegina in the Rafi Local Government Area of Niger State have been abducted. One person was said to have been shot dead while another was critically injured after the gunmen carried…
Kagara victims released after 9 days in captivity
The staff and students who were abducted from Government Science College, Kagara, Niger State, have been released. Family sources confirmed the news to Daily Trust on Saturday. The victims are currently on their way to Minna, the state capital, to…
We’ll starve schoolboys to death- Niger abductors
Abductors of the 27 students and 15 workers of Government Science College, Kagara, Niger State, have threatened to starve them to death if the ransom they are demanding is not paid on time. One of the abductors stated this in…
We saw hell in kidnappers’ den, freed victims narrate ordeal
Some of the freed 53 passengers kidnapped by terrorists while travelling in a Niger State government-owned NSTA bus in Niger State have continued to narrate their experiences in the kidnappers’ den. The passengers recently regained their freedom following the intervention…
Kagara abduction: Governor assures of imminent freedom
Four days after the attack and abduction of 42 students, staff and their relatives at Government Science College in Kagara, Rafi Council of Niger State by armed bandits, the town remained in confusion. When The Guardian visited the sleepy agrarian…
Governor rejects N500m ransom demand as bandits cling to Kagara schoolboys
Hope was initially raised yesterday on freedom for the abducted 27 students and 15 others at Government Science College, Kagara, Niger State, but later dashed, with the bandits insisting on N500 million ransom before releasing the abductees and other people…
