A 500-level student of Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto, Mansur Garba and some yet-to-be-identified people were abducted on Wednesday by gunmen suspected to be terrorists in Zamfara, northwest Nigeria. SaharaReporters learned that the abduction happened on the highway leading to Gusau, Zamfara State capital when the terrorists stopped a car carrying no fewer than six passengers, including Mansur Garba. The vehicle was going from Sokoto to Gusua. The gunmen kidnapped the passengers and took them to an unknown location.
All kidnapped female students of Federal University Dutsinma in Katsina State have been released, SaharaReporters can report. The Vice-Chancellor of the university, Prof. Armayau Hamisu Bichi, confirmed this to SaharaReporters on Friday. SaharaReporters on October 4, 2023, reported how a source revealed that the terrorists on Wednesday morning invaded the students’ private lodge along Moriamoh Ajiri School at Dutsin-Ma and kidnapped no fewer than five female students of the university living in the area.
At least six female students of the Federal University Dutsin-Ma, Katsina State, and the Federal University Gusau, Zamfara State, Northwest Nigeria are still in terrorists’ den, SaharaReporters has gathered. For Katsina, four students still in captivity are identified as Bello Fatima Zara, and Adam Rahmatallahi from Kwara State, and two others from Niger and Kano states respectively were not released on Sunday together when their colleague, Muhammad Fatima Ruqqayat, was freed.
One of the kidnapped female students of the Federal University Dutsin-Ma, Katsina State, Northwest Nigeria has been released by the terrorists after payment of ransom. SaharaReporters gathered from the family of one of the female students, identified as Muhammad Fatima Ruqqayat, that she regained her freedom on Sunday after spending over 45 days in the terrorists’ den.
The kidnappers of five female students of Federal University Dutsin-Ma, Katsina State, Northwest Nigeria, have contacted the family of one of the victims to demand a ransom of N2 million. SaharaReporters earlier reported how gunmen suspected to be terrorists on Wednesday morning abducted at least five students at a hostel in the school.