SEPARATED by a distance of approximately 110 kilometers, three individuals Musa Abdullahi (16), Usman Musa (15), and Abubakar Garin-Dawa (17) find themselves bound by a shared destiny marked by suffering and sorrow. These young Almajiri children have become unwilling victims of child labour within the Tsangaya school overseen by Alarama Idi Yusha’u. The Tsangaya schools are the open spaces where children are made to learn and recite the Qur’an.
Personnel of Zamfara State Command have busted a gang of bandits, killing one of them. The police also arrested six suspects for banditry, kidnapping and cattle rustling in the Northwest Nigerian state. The police also repelled a bandit attack on a community in Gusau and Maru local government areas of the state and recovered two AK-47s, 104 rounds of live ammunition, two magazines for AK-47s and a bunch of charms.