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KIDNAPPED AFAKA 29, GREENFIELD 16 STUDENTS: Anguished parents protest at NASS, accuse FG of neglect
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…Parents of Afaka 29 students protest plight of their children at NASS
…Accuse FG, Kaduna govt of negligence
…Parents look hopeless, depend on National Assembly Reps
…FG, KDSG working together to secure Kaduna varsity students’ freedom – Lai Mohammed
…Allow more time for negotiation, don’t kill them, NAPTAN pleads
…If you’ve better solution than ransom, put it to work Shehu Sani
By Soni Daniel, Northern Region Editor, Adesina Wahab, Levinus Nwabughiogu, Luminous Jannamike & Ibrahim Hassan
…Parents of Afaka 29 students protest plight of their children at NASS …Accuse FG, Kaduna govt of negligence …Parents look hopeless, depend on National Assembly Reps …FG, KDSG working together to secure Kaduna varsity students’ freedom – Lai Mohammed …Allow more time for negotiation, don’t kill them, NAPTAN pleads …If you’ve better solution than ransom, put it to work Shehu Sani By Soni Daniel, Northern Region Editor, Adesina Wahab, Levinus Nwabughiogu, Luminous Jannamike & Ibrahim Hassan One of the abducted students of Greenfield University in Kaduna State has been released by the abductors. The kidnappers had threatened yesterday to eliminate the remaining 17 of the students in their custody should their parents fail to pay them N100 million ransom, in addition to 10 motorcycles.
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ACF, CNGs lampoon Buhari, El-Rufai over killing of two more Greenfield varsity students
The spate of insecurity in the country assumed a more dangerous dimension on Monday as Boko Haram insurgents made inroads into Niger State and gunmen killed two students of Greenfield University in Kaduna state.
Also on Monday, the Vice-Chancellor of the Federal University of Agriculture, Makurdi, Benue State, Professor Richard Kimbir, said kidnappers attacked the institution on Saturday night.
In Kebbi State, the police said nine of their personnel were killed by bandits in the Sakaba Local Government Area of the state.
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Abductors of students of Greenfield University, in Kaduna have made contacts with the families of the 20 students captured Tuesday night to demand N800 million as ransom.
This is about $2million going by the official Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) rate.
The terrorists have also threatened to kill the students if the ransom is not paid, according to a relation of one of the students who spoke with The Nation.
Twenty students, made up of 14 females and six males were captured by the terrorists on Tuesday night.
Two female staff of the university were also abducted.
The relation of one of the victim also claimed that the abductors have been beating the students, insisting on the urgency of the payment.