Five students of Bethel Baptist School and their Matron have been released by bandits, the Nigerian Baptist Convention said on Friday. The President of NBC, Dr. Israel Akanji, said this in a short message to journalists on Friday. He wrote, “Breaking News: Glory be to God. Five of our Bethel Baptist High School students and […]
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Human rights activist, Femi Falana (SAN), has requested a Lagos high court sitting in Ikeja to conduct a corona inquest into the circumstances surrounding the killing of an 18-year-old admission seeker, Monsura Ojuade. Ojuade was reportedly in front of her parents’ house on Mogaji Street, Ijesa, Surulere, when some anti-robbery officers from the State Criminal […]
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Police Inspector General Alkali Usman Baba Yobe Police Command has arrested a 22-year-old woman, Khadija Yakubu, for allegedly poisoning and killing three of her stepchildren in Malaria Huta community, Potiskum Local Government Area of the state. Police spokesman in the state, ASP Dungus Abdulkareem, in a statement on Friday said that the suspect poisoned the […]
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Gunmen have killed Abubakar Abdullahi, the chairman of Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders’ Association of Nigeria, NACBN, in Lere Local Government Area of Kaduna State. The attack happened in the early hours of Friday, the the Director of Media and Publicity of MACBN in Kaduna State, Ibrahim Bayero-Zango, confirmed the incident to our correspondent, even as […]
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The Kaduna State Police Command said on Thursday that it has arrested kidnappers of students of Greenfield University as well as students of the Bethel Baptist High School, all in the state. Also in the police net are kidnappers of the 37 students of the Federal College of Forestry Mechanisation, Afaka, in Igabi LGA of […]
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Parents of abducted students of Bethel Baptist High School sit inside the school premises to pray for the return of their children whom were abducted by gunmen in the Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna state, northwest Nigeria on July 14, 2021. – The girls are just two of the more than 100 Nigerian children […]
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Caleb University, Imota, Lagos State, has said its internal investigation and information obtained from chats between a missing student, Oluwanifemi Olajide, and his sister, Stella, showed that the student’s disappearance was planned. The student’s father, Oni Olajide, had lamented that his son went missing while in the school. He claimed that Oluwanifemi, a student of […]
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One month after the disappearance of John Oluwanifemi Olajide, a Caleb University student who allegedly went missing on the school premises, his father, Oni Olajide, has lamented the lack of cooperation from the school management. Oluwanifemi, an undergraduate studying Computer Science in the institution, had sent disturbing messages to his elder sister, Stella Oni, on […]
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Scene of reunion of some abducted school children with their parents after they were freed ‘Over 1,000 children abducted between January and August 2021’ 31 Bethel students still in captivity, CAN cries out FG: Lack of funds hampering implementation of Safe School Initiative Mobilise hunters, vigilance groups, retired military and paramilitary officers to protect schools, […]
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A Beninese immigrant, Adamu Sime, has been arrested by the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, Kwara State Command, for allegedly having carnal knowledge of his biological mother. The command’s spokesman, Mr Babawale Afolabi, confirmed this in a statement he signed and made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday, in […]
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