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7 STUDENTS AND ONE TEACHER KIDNAPPED IN DAMBO-KASAYA COMMUNITY

By Ibrahim Mohammed Armed men on Monday attacked a school in Kaduna, killing one person and kidnapping seven students and a teacher, residents said. The armed men killed a man and abducted seven students and a teacher of Prince Academy, located at Damba-Kasaya village in Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State. The incident happened around 8 a.m. on Monday when the gunmen stormed the rural community while the students were preparing for their Junior secondary school examination‎. It gathered that the abducted students are JSS3 students who were among the exit students asked to resume by the federal and state government. The kidnapped female teacher was identified as Christianah Madugu while the man who was reportedly shot dead was identified as Benjamin Auta, whose house is close to the school. ‎A youth in the area who spoke with PREMIUM TIMES, Akila‎ Barde, said the assailants arrived on motorcycles well armed. “They came into the village shooting before they went to the scho...
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AJEGULE COMMUNITY, OTHERS RECEIVE MOSQUITO NETS FROM IKEJA ELECTRIC

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OVER 1 MILLION PEOPLE IN LUGBE COMMUNITY USE 10 ATM POINTS

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RUSSIA STRIKES AND HITS MOSQUE IN MARIUPOL COMMUNITY

An explosion in an apartment building that came under fire from a Russian army tank in Mariupol, Ukraine, on March 11, 2022. Evgeniy Maloletka—AP BY MSTYSLAV CHERNOV AND YURAS KARMANAU / AP MARIUPOL, Ukraine — Russian forces pounding the port city of Mariupol shelled a mosque that was sheltering more than 80 people, including children, the Ukrainian government said Saturday. Fighting also raged in the outskirts of Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, and Russia kept up its bombardment of other resisting cities. There was no immediate word of casualties from the shelling of Mariupol’s elegant, city-center mosque. The encircled city of 446,000 people has endured some of Ukraine’s worst misery since Russia invaded, with unceasing barrages thwarting repeated attempts to bring in food, water and medicine, evacuate trapped civilians and even bury the dead. “They are bombing it (Mariupol) 24 hours a day, launching missiles. It is hatred. They kill children,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said d...
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MASSIVE LANDSLIDE KILLS 2 IN WEST JAVA COMMUNITY

By Mahmut Atanur  At least two people were killed early Thursday in Indonesia’s West Java province in a landslide caused by heavy rains. Two died as result of house being swept away According to the National Agency for Disaster Management (BNPB), the two were killed as a result of a house being swept away by the landslide. Search and rescue efforts are continuing in the region, it added. In Indonesia, which has a tropical climate, floods and landslides frequently occur due to heavy rains. Thank you for reading. Kindly share also.