kidnapping

In Nigeria, the gang chief who led the kidnapping of 344 younger boys in Kankara, northwestern Nigeria in December, was killed by different native "bandits" simply days after breaking the peace settlement he made with the native authorities. as reported from Lagos, Liza FabbianAuwal Daudawa coordinated at the top of final 12…

Three Nigerian academics kidnapped in third kidnapping. Gunmen on motorcycles stormed a primary school in the northwestern Nigerian state of Kaduna and kidnapped three teachers but no children, a government official said on Monday after the fifth school abduction in three months. It was the first attack on an elementary school in a wave of such attacks in which more than 700 people have been abducted since December, and it comes just four days after 39 students were abducted from the Federal College of Forestry…

Violence is rising.Elementary school students and teachers were abducted by gunmen on Monday in the Nigerian state of Kaduna, according to a government official.

Nigerian gunmen have taken an unspecified number of students from a college in a northwestern state, local police said on Friday in the latest abduction against schools. The suspected kidnapping gang stormed the Federal College of Forestry Mechanization in Mando, Kaduna, around 1 p.m. 21.30 (20:30 GMT) on Thursday and shot indiscriminately and took students hostage. The university is said to have about 300 male and female students - mostly 17 years and older - at the time of the attack, but it was not…

Authorities in Nigeria's Zamfara state have declared a curfew and closed markets after violence joked hundreds of abducted schoolgirls to their families, a state spokesman said on Thursday. Late on Wednesday, shots and chaos erupted during what should have been the happy return of 279 schoolgirls abducted by armed men from their boarding school last week. The government secured the release of the girls on Tuesday, but they had undergone medical check-ups and treatment. At least three people were shot,…

Nearly 300 girls, who were abducted from a boarding school in the northwestern Nigerian state of Zamfara on Friday, have been released by gunmen, the governor said in a tweet on Tuesday. An armed gang had abducted the girls from the GGSS school (Government Girls Science Secondary) in the city of Jangebe. A rescue operation was underway to get the girls back to safety. A teacher at GGSS, who asked to remain anonymous, had said that the attack occurred around 1 o'clock (12 GMT) but did not provide…

Armed men abducted 317 students on Friday and a rescue operation is underway, police in northwestern Nigeria said of the country's latest mass kidnapping. "The Zamfara State Police Command, in cooperation with the military, has launched a joint rescue operation to rescue the 317 students abducted by the armed bandits of the Government Girls Science Secondary School in Jangebe," police spokesman Mohammed Shehu said in a statement. "Unknown armed men came shooting sporadically and abducted the girls,"…

The Boko Haram group claimed responsibility for the abduction of at least 333 high school students this Tuesday, December 15, in the state of Katsina in northwestern Nigeria. This mass kidnapping, reminiscent of the abduction of 276 high school girls from Chibok in 2014 in Borno State, is the first incident of this magnitude in western Nigeria, until it was spared by the jihadist threat. In the country,…

The Boko Haram group has claimed responsibility for the abduction of hundreds of students in an attack on a boys' school in Nigeria's northwestern state of Katsina, media reported on Tuesday. More than 330 students are missing from Government Science Secondary School in Kankara after gunmen attacked their school on Friday night, forcing hundreds of students to flee and hide in surrounding bushes and forests. The Daily Nigerian said on Tuesday that it had received an audio message from Boko Haram leader…

During the night from Friday to Saturday, several hundred high school students from their boarding school in Kankara were kidnapped by one hundred armed men on motorcycles. This attack, which took place in the state of Katsina in the northwestern part of the country, was first attributed to the "bandits" who usually operate in this area. The allegation of this attack by Abubakar Shekau, which was broadcast on Tuesday morning, December 15, in a voice message marks a turning point in the jihadist group's expansion.…