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President Muhammadu Buhari (left) and Katsina State Governor, Aminu Bello Masari during the governor’s visit to brief the President on the Kankara school abductions, at the President’s House in Daura, Katsina State…yesterday.
• Attackers injure participants, cart away valuables • Masari briefs President on Kankara abduction • Sultan queries FG’s political will
• Northern elders restate calls for sack of service chiefs, foreign help • Abduction of students, a slap on Buhari’s face, says JNI
• Northern youths call for restructuring, arms for citizens • UN laments kidnap of students
Hopelessness, yesterday, enveloped efforts at stopping bandits in the North as suspected thugs attacked and disrupted a security meeting at Arewa House in Kaduna, inflicting injuries on participants.
SIMONKOLAWOLE! BY SIMON KOLAWOLE
If you take time to study Nigeria since 1960 when we began to govern ourselves you would notice an unrelenting constant: bloodshed. From political violence to coups, civil war, ethno-religious riots, communal clashes, military massacres, banditry, terrorism, farmers/herders clashes and kidnappings, it has been a gory story spread across 60 years. In the last three years, though, it appears all the terrible things are happening at once, like under Murphy’s Law. As we are battling communal killings in Kaduna, terrorists are beheading farmers in Borno, bandits are slaying villagers in Zamfara, and kidnappers are grabbing people all over the federation. We are in a horrible state.
333 students still unaccounted for ― Masari tribuneonlineng.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from tribuneonlineng.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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