Kankara: Police Arrest Bandits Terrorising Kastina

Bandits, Again, Seven Kidnapped By Bandits In Kaduna

308 suspected rustled livestock were recovered from the bandits.  At least four bandits wreaking havoc in Kankara and its vicinity have been apprehended, The Katsina State Police Command has said. Ekohotblog reports that spokesman of the Katsina State Police Command, Isah Gambo disclosed this on Tuesday. Addressing newsmen regarding the development, Gambo said the … Read more

Emirate Council Suspends Kankara District Head For Alleged Role In Banditry

The Emirate Council of the Katsina State has suspended the district head of Kankara where over 100 Schoolgirls were Kidnapped earlier this year. Lawal the district head was suspended because of his alleged role in aiding Banditry in the state.   Katsina Emirate Council has suspended the Sarkin Pauwan Katsina, who is also the district … Read more

UN Blasts Buhari Over Shoddy Investigation Of Kankara Schoolboys Abduction

Kankara

The United Nations has chastised President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration over the ihandling of the abducted Kankara schoolboys  investigation. Recall that hundreds of schoolboys were kidnapped from Kankara government school in Katsina, Buhari’s home state, in November. But in a statement issued on Wednesday by the UN panel of experts in Geneva, Switzerland, the global organization … Read more

Bandit Who Masterminded Kankara Students Abduction Surrenders

Kankara bandit

This information was confirmed by Abubakar Muhammad Sauran, a Commissioner of Zamfara state internal affairs. The bandit that masterminded students from Government Science Secondary School, Auwal Daudawa surrenders his arms along with five of his gang members. According to reports gathered from BBC Hausa, Auwal Daudawa is the brain behind Kankara students abduction which took … Read more

#BringBackOurBoys: Shehu Urges Campaign To Refund Raised Funds

President Muhammadu Buhari’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, has urged the #BringBackOurBoys campaigners to refund monies collected for the movement. He lamented that it was shameful that “merchants of fortune” profiteered from the abduction of over 300 schoolboys from Government Science Secondary School, Kankara, Katsina State. Shehu said the creators of … Read more

Unlike Chibok, Kankara Ends Well

Chibok, Kankara

Chibok, Kankara  Although in the seeming absence of leadership, political order and law, life has become somewhat uncertain, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short, the denouement of the Kankara abduction incident, however, leaves so much to be grateful for, writes Louis Achi According to the quaint English philosopher-historian, Thomas Hobbes, in a “state of nature”, … Read more

Kankara Pupils Want Schools Protected

Kankara

Kankara pupils  Reactions have continued to trail the release of the 344 students of Government Science Secondary School (GSSS), Kankara, Katsina State, who were abducted by gunmen last week Friday night, Eko hot blog gathered. For the students’ parents and relations, it has been wild jubilation and cries of joy over their release, after spending … Read more

Kankara Schoolboys Release Vindicates Buhari – Tinubu

Buhari And Tinubu

All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain, Bola Tinubu said the release of over 300 schoolboys abducted from Government Science Secondary School, Kankara, Katsina State, vindicated President Muhammadu Buhari. Tinubu made this known on Saturday through a statement titled, ‘Lauding Pres. Buhari, Gov. Masari over Rescue of Kankara Schoolboys’. He said, “The initial abduction of the over … Read more

Kankara Abduction Not Stage-Managed – FG

EU Hails Buhari For "Swiftness" In Release Of Abducted Katsina Students

Abduction The Federal Government has described as senseless the claim in certain quarters that the abduction of some students from a boarding school in Kankara, Katsina State, and their release was stage-managed. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, dismissed the claim on Saturday when he featured on a special edition of the … Read more

Hold Kidnappers Of Kankara Schoolboys Accountable, U.S. Urges Nigeria

U.S. Kankara abduction

Abduction The United States (U.S.) on Thursday condemned the abduction of hundreds of children by gunmen from Government Science Secondary School, Kankara, Katsina State, on Dec. 11 and urged the government to hold those responsible accountable ” to the full extent of the law”. The U.S. Department of State condemned the abduction in a statement … Read more

Katsina Abduction: ‘Those Using Our Children As Pawn Must Be Held Accountable’ – Okonjo-Iweala

Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

Former minister of finance, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has warned that those using Nigerian children as ‘pawn’ must be held accountable. She stated this on her official Twitter page while reacting to the abduction of over 300 students from the Government Science Secondary school, Kankara in Katsina State. The former Minister described the incident as a … Read more

BREAKING: Gunmen Kill One, Abduct Three In Katsina

fresh attack

Gunmen on Sunday have reportedly killed a farmer, Bashir Mandela Jibiya in Jibia Local government area of Katsina State and again, kidnapped three others including two women. The attack was coming barely 24 hours after attack on boarding school students at Government Secondary School, Kankara, Katsina State and President Muhammadu Buhari’s visit to his hometown, … Read more

BREAKING: Protest Rocks Katsina Over Abduction Of Schoolboys

Residents on Sunday took to the street to protest the abduction of many schoolboys from the Government Science Secondary School, Kankara in the Kankara Local Government Area, Kastina State. The protesters demanded the prompt rescue of students abducted by bandits on Friday night Recall that, yesterday, Ekohotblog reported that scores of students of the boarding … Read more

BREAKING: Governor Masari Orders Closure Of Kastina Boarding Schools

Bandits

Kastina State Governor, Aminu Masari on Saturday ordered the immediate closure of all boarding secondary schools in the state. The directive followed the abduction of scores of students of the Government Science Secondary School Kankara by bandits on Friday night. The Governor gave the order during his visit to the school on Saturday for an … Read more