Gunmen kidnapped six students in northwestern Nigeria late Tuesday, local authorities confirmed on Thursday. An operation is underway to rescue the six students, who were from the Federal Polytechnic in Kaura Namoda area, Zamfara State, police spokesperson Yazid Abubakar told Xinhua by phone. According to Abubakar, the incidentContinue Reading
Nigerian police on Thursday said a rescue operation has been launched after a group of armed men attacked a dormitory of the Nasarawa State University and abducted at least six students in Nigeria’s central region. The gunmen invaded an off-campus hostel in Gudi town, Akwanga Local Government Area, lateContinue Reading
Gunmen suspected to be militants of the terror group Boko Haram have abducted five children in Cameroon’s Far North region, security sources said on Thursday. The children, aged between 7 and 19, were kidnapped on Tuesday while they were returning from farming on the slopes of Mount Kassa inContinue Reading
A Cameroonian official kidnapped by Nigerian pirates was freed on Monday night, local officials and security sources said. Roland Ewane, an administrative official for Idabato town in Cameroon’s Bakassi Peninsula, which borders Nigeria, was abducted alongside an Idabato councilor in October. Gilbert Guibai Baldena, an administrative officialContinue Reading
