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Repentant bandits, including the alleged mastermind of the Kankara abduction, Auwalun Daudawa, on Monday, February 8, 2021, surrendered a score of AK-47 rifles to the Zamfara State Government.
Daudawa and five of his lieutenants, according to The Cable, surrendered 20 AK 47 rifles, ammunition and a rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) launcher to Zamfara.
It will be recalled that over 300 schoolboys were abducted from the Government Science Secondary School in Kankara on December 11, 2020, just hours after President Muhammadu Buhari visited Katsina state.
The boys who spent about five days in captivity were later released and the Zamfara state governor, Bello Matawalle, stressed that no ransom was paid.
2020 Events That Once Overshadowed Coronavirus Pandemic In Nigeria
No fewer than 23 persons were killed in a gas explosion at Abule-Ado area of Amuwo Odofin Local Government Area of Lagos on March 15.
by SaharaReporters, New York
Dec 29, 2020
As coronavirus has killed over a million and sickened tens of millions of people worldwide, some events snapped up the spotlight in Nigeria as the pandemic upended lives.
Here are the highlights of landmark events in 2020 in Nigeria:
Dethronement of Emir Kano
Sanusi Lamido Sanusi II was dethroned as the Emir of Kano on March 10 by the Kano State Government.
Abdullahi Ganduje, governor of Kano State, said Sanusi was removed from office for insubordination.
Parents shed tears of joy as hundreds of Nigerian schoolboys who were abducted by Boko Haram were freed from their Islamist captors.
Freed after being kidnapped in an attack on their school, the boys were welcomed by the governor of Katsina state and Nigeria s president on Friday.
Emotional reunions with their parents began late in the day, Since this incident happened I have not been able to sleep, but now I can sleep, said Salisu Kankara, a parent of one of the schoolboys who was released.
A family member of a freed schoolboy cries as she waits for a reunion with her son in Katsina Nigeria Friday, December 18. The students nightmare began on the night of Dec. 11 when they were seized by men armed with AK-47 rifles from the all-boys Government Science Secondary School in Kankara village in Katsina state in northwestern Nigeria
HumAngle, a respected Nigerian outlet, wrote a source inside Boko Haram had told it that 523 boys had been kidnapped.
The figure is far higher than that given by Aminu Bello Masari, the governor of Katsina State, who said more than 300 boys were still missing. If true, the news will be a blow to Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria’s president, whose spokesman initially claimed only 10 students were held by the gunmen.
The kidnapping of 276 schoolgirls in Chibok in the north-east by Boko Haram in 2014 and the bungled government attempts to get the children back caused national and global outrage.
The assault comes as Boko Haram and the Nigerian military may be investigated for war crimes in the insurgency.
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