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OUTRAGE, on Friday, greeted Thursday night’s open fraternization between Sheikh Ahmad Abubakar Gumi, the Niger State government and bandits who abducted students and teachers of Government Science College, Kagara, in Rafi Local Government Area of the state. The bandits also killed a student of the school during the abduction. Sheikh Gumi led a delegation that included high-ranking officials of Niger State to a negotiation meeting with the bandits in Tagina Forest, at the end of which Gumi said the bandits showed positive signs of releasing the students and renouncing banditry. Leaders of the Niger Delta under the aegis of the Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF), their Yoruba counterparts, the Middle Belt Forum (MBF) and other similar groups and leaders across the country described the meeting and the negotiation as bizarre and an endorsement of criminality. PANDEF condemned the meeting and described kidnapping as having become an enterprise.
PROVIDENCE A Providence County grand jury has indicted a Boston man already serving time for a double homicide in the 2011 cold case death of 23-year-old Steven Latimer.
Nigel A. Nichols, 35, formerly of Boston s Mattapan neighborhood, is facing 10 counts related to the fatal shooting of Latimer and wounding of several others early Oct. 2, 2011, outside a Providence nightclub.
Nichols is charged with one count each of of murder, discharging a firearm while committing a crime of violence resulting in death, discharging a firearm from a motor vehicle, and illegal possession of a firearm. In addition, he faces three counts each of assault with a dangerous weapon and discharging a firearm while committing a crime of violence resulting in injury.
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