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Nigeria: 10 More Kaduna Baptist School Students Freed
Vanguard, 26 September 2021
TEN students abducted from Bethel Baptist High School, Damishi, Kaduna, have been released, after spending close to 12 weeks in captivity. Read more »
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Nigeria: Police Arrest Suspected Kidnappers of Baptist School Students - Official
Premium Times, 23 September 2021
Bandits on 5 July invaded Bethel Baptist High School, Kaduna and kidnapped over 100 students. Read more »
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Nigeria: Kidnapped 126 Bethel Baptist School Children - Police Nab 3 Bandits
Vanguard, 24 September 2021
Three members of the armed bandit's gang who kidnapped 126 students of the Bethel Baptist Secondary School, Maraban Damishi in Kaduna state on the 5th of July 2021 have been… Read more »
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Nigeria: Three 'Kidnappers' of Bethel School Students Nabbed
Daily Trust, 23 September 2021
The suspects, who dressed in military camouflage, were paraded by the Force Public Relations Officers, Frank Mba, at the headquarters of defunct Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS),… Read more »
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Nigeria: In Nigeria, Civilian Patrols Try to Deter Kidnappings, Other Crime
VOA, 23 September 2021
With kidnapping and violent attacks rampant in northern Nigeria, some civilians have grown impatient with security forces and have taken up arms themselves. VOA's Haruna Shehu… Read more »
Arrests Made Following Kidnapping of Nigerian Schoolchildren
Nigeria police spokesperson Frank Mba has said that three arrests have been made in the kidnapping of over 121 learners at the Bethel Baptist High School in Kaduna State on July 5, 2021. f being members of a gang that kidnapped students of Bethel Baptist High School, in Kaduna State.
Some of the learners were released in groups, with at least 20 still being held.
Similar incidents have occurred in neighbouring Zamfara, Niger and Katsina states, which has experienced a deteriorating security situation. In August 2021, bandits freed 93 learners abducted from Salihu Tanko Islamiyya School in Tegina, Niger State, after three months, following a ransom payment.
Kidnapping remains a major security challenge in Nigeria, with hundreds of learners taken since December 2020. Most have been released after ransom negotiations. Parents and family members of kidnapped schoolchildren have been at loggerheads with the government on ransom payments to free their loved ones. The government remains opposed, saying that it only makes the kidnappers more powerful.
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Kidnappers have released learners of the Salihu Tanko Islamiyya School in Tegina, Niger State, who were taken on May 30, 2021. However, six of the 136 learners have reportedly ... Read more »
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Zamfara State government has shut down schools across the state following the abduction of 73 students at the Government Day Secondary School in Kaya in the state. The state ... Read more »
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