By Mansur Abubakar BBC News, Kano More than 280 Nigerian school pupils have been abducted in the north-western town of Kuriga, officials say. The pupils were in the assembly ground around 08:30 (07:30 GMT) when dozens of gunmen on motorcycles rode through the school, one witness said. The students, between the ages of eight and 15, were taken away, along ...
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By Mansur Abubakar BBC News, Abuja As the rising cost of living continues to bite, many in northern Nigeria are turning to rice grains that millers once either normally rejected after processing or sold to farmers to feed their fish. These are referred to in the Hausa language, widely spoken in the north, as afafata, which means “battling” because they ...
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By Mansur Abubakar BBC News, Abuja Nigerian police had no role in rescuing four sisters and their cousin from kidnappers, an uncle of the girls has told the BBC. They were taken from their home in Abuja earlier this month, along with another sister who was later killed. The uncle said a ransom was paid and the kidnappers dropped the ...
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