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The 39 abducted students of the Federal College of Forestry Mechanisation, Kaduna, have appealed to the government to meet the demands of the bandits to safe their lives. The students made the appeal in two video clips that had gone viral. The students were abducted on Thursday at about 11:30pm when the hoodlums invaded the school located along the Kaduna Airport road. In the two video clips, the students were seen appealing to the government to urgently settle with the bandits so that they will be freed. The bandits were seen wielding guns and flogging the students who were wailing…

President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday sent a strong warning to terrorists and bandits targeting public schools saying government will not allow the destruction of the school system in the country. The President, in a release on Saturday by his Media Assistant, Garba Shehu, however, commended efforts of the Kaduna State government and early response of the military which led to the rescue of 180 students including eight staff members and urged that the others declared missing be found and returned safely to their families. He also commended efforts and contributions of local intelligence in significantly thwarting the kidnappers, saying a…

A bit of gossip for the men; there are some little things women find attractive in you and for some reason, many men do not understand why. Romantic attraction is a complicated thing that scientists still don’t completely understand. However, through research and experimentation, they have come up with many ideas about what draws one person to another. Often, the things men focus on might not cut it for so many women. Below are some things women find attractive in men: Older Men A 2010 study of 3,770 heterosexual adults suggested that women often prefer older men. As the women became more…

Chelsea missed a chance to cement their place in the Premier League’s top four as Leeds held them to a frustrating 0-0 draw on Saturday. Thomas Tuchel’s side had plenty of chances but couldn’t deliver the knockout blow in a hard-fought clash at Elland Road. The Blues remain in fourth place and fifth-placed West Ham are just three points behind them with two games in hand as the race to qualify for the Champions League looks set to go down to the wire. Tuchel is now unbeaten in 12 matches in all competitions since replacing the sacked Frank Lampard in…

Neymar will miss Paris Saint-Germain’s game against Nantes on Sunday in Ligue 1 due to a lingering thigh injury, but coach Mauricio Pochettino says there has been no setback in his recovery. The Brazilian was ruled out of both legs of PSG’s Champions League last-16 tie against his former club Barcelona, and hasn’t played since sustaining the injury on February 10 in the French Cup. “It’s difficult to predict a return date because the recovery is different depending on the player,” Pochettino said during a virtual press conference on Saturday. “There’s been no relapse. We’re happy with his progress and…

Cristiano Ronaldo warned that “true champions never break” as he turned his focus to Juventus’s Serie A match at Cagliari on Sunday after their early Champions League elimination. “True champions never break! Our focus is already in Cagliari, in the Serie A struggle, in the Italian Cup final and in everything that we can still achieve this season,” Ronaldo said on Instagram, the first time he has spoken since Juventus crashed out of the last 16 to Porto. “More important than the number of falls you take in life, is how fast and how strong you get back on your…

Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Director-General, World Trade Organisation (WTO), on Saturday, arrived in Nigeria on a 4-day official visit aimed at enhancing trade and improving the Nigerian economy. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Okonjo-Iweala, who assumed duty on March 1, 2021, as the new Director-General of the WTO, is also in Nigeria to express appreciation to President Muhammadu Buhari and hold talks on how to stimulate economic activities. Speaking to newsmen, on arrival, Okonjo-Iweala, said the objective of her visit was to see how the WTO could better assist Nigeria and her entrepreneurs on improving the economy. On…

Islamic State-aligned jihadists ambushed a Nigerian military convoy, killing 15 soldiers and four militia fighters in the northeastern state of Borno, security sources said Saturday. The convoy came under heavy attack from Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) fighters near Gudumbali in the Lake Chad region on Thursday, the sources said. The attack was the latest in a jihadist conflict which has killed 36,000 people and displaced hundreds of thousands in northeast Nigeria since it began more than a decade ago. “We lost 15 soldiers and four civilian JTF (militia) in the terrorists’ ambush in the forest near Gudumbali,” a…

The Vice Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in 2019 elections, Mr. Peter Obi, has said that the high level of poverty in Nigeria coupled with failure of leadership, had continued to encourage insecurity in different parts of the country. Obi, who spoke to journalists in Abuja, expressed hope that if the government could sincerely put measures in place to lift Nigerians out of poverty, by supporting small scale businesses and creating jobs for the youth, security challenges in the country would reduce automatically. He said people, especially youths, would easily take to crime when they were living…

Governor Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto State has disclosed that the governors of the 36 states in the country were in total support of financial autonomy for the legislative and judicial arms at the state level. Tambuwal, who spoke with newsmen at the State House in Abuja yesterday, at the end of a closed-door meeting with the Chief of Staff to the President, Prof. Ibrahim Gambari, also hinted that modalities for the implementation of the financial autonomy would be sorted out next Thursday by the state governors. The Sokoto State governor, who was in the company of his Plateau State counterpart,…