Kaduna - The African Mirror

Mar

2024

More than 100 kidnapped Nigerian students arrive back in Kaduna

WRAPPED in orange headscarves and blue school uniforms, over 100 Nigerian students and staff who were kidnapped this month arrived at the local government building in the country's north, a day after they were freed by the army. "There are 131 students, six others are currently being hospitalized and will be eventually discharged when they get better," said Major General MLD Saraso of the Nigerian army. He said one of the 138 people abducted, a school staff member, had died in captivity. The army announced on Sunday it had rescued 137 hostages - 76 female and 61 male - in…

Mar

2024

By GARBA MUHAMMAD

Nigeria Air Force trainer plane crashes but pilots survive

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A Nigerian Air Force Super Mushshak trainer aircraft was involved in "a minor mishap", but the two pilots on board survived the crash, the Air Force said. The incident occurred at about 1335 GMT near a military airfield in the northern city of Kaduna as the plane was returning from a routine training flight, Air Force spokesperson Edward Gabkwet said in a statement. Nigeria Air Force authorities have ordered a preliminary investigation to determine the immediate cause of the crash, the statement said. No further details were provided. The crash follows a Nigerian Air Force MI-35P helicopter that went down in December…

Jul

2022

By The African Mirror

Catholic priest abducted in Nigeria, diocese says

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A Nigerian Catholic priest was abducted from his rectory in the town of Zambina in the northern state of Kaduna in the early hours of Monday, the local Catholic diocese said. It said parishioners went to look for Father Emmanuel Silas after waiting in vain for him to conduct the morning mass. It is not clear who carried out the abduction. Armed gangs are rife across Nigeria's northwest where they rob or kidnap for ransom, and violence has been increasing, where thinly stretched security forces often fail to stop the attacks. The latest kidnap comes after gunmen last week abducted…

Sep

2021

By The African Mirror

Armed men kill at least 30 in northern Nigerian villages

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BOSAN YAKUSAK ARMED men killed at least 34 people in two villages in the northern Nigerian state of Kaduna in the early hours of Monday, the state government and two residents said. The Kaduna government said in a statement that 34 people were killed in the village of Madamai. One resident, speaking by phone, said he counted 44 corpses in the local mortuary from attacks on Madamai and neighbouring Abum village. Another local resident said around 30 people had died. The government statement said security forces who had gone to the scene came under fire but forced attackers to withdraw…

Mar

2021

By The African Mirror

Three primary school teachers kidnapped in Nigeria

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GARBA MUHAMMAD GUNMEN on motorbikes stormed a primary school in the northwestern Nigerian state of Kaduna and kidnapped three teachers but no children, a state official said yesterday, 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. Samuel Aruwan, Kaduna state's commissioner for internal security, said in a press briefing that Rema Primary School, in the Birnin Gwari Local Government Area, was attacked at around 8:50am (0750 GMT) on Monday. He said children fled as…