KANKARA, Nigeria (Reuters) - Annas Shuaibu says he awoke to the sound of gunshots fired by men who burst into his boarding school in northwest Nigeria in a nighttime raid. He and hundreds of other ...

Stakeholders of the All Progressives Congress in the Kankara/Faskari/Sabuwa Federal Constituency of Katsina State have affirmed a former Commissioner for Environment, Hamza Sule Faskari, as the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Parents gather during a meeting at the Government Science school after gunmen abducted students in Kankara Parents gather during a ...

Once a peaceful town in Katsina State, in Nigeria’s northwest, Kankara has transformed into a stronghold of terror and defiance. From early Boko Haram attacks to ...

The number sticks out like a sore thumb. This is the number by which many people in the world have come to know the kids who were abducted from their school in Kankara, in the Katsina home state of ...

Elated by the release and return of the abducted Kankara students, the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has charged the nation’s security agencies to marshall out pre-empt measures to forestall ...

The minister advises politicians and other interest groups to stop politicising and commercialising issues of security. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, dismissed the ...

The student abductions in northwestern Nigeria reflect the growing strength of criminal gangs and the weakness of the federal government and its security services. Kidnapping is prevalent nationwide, ...