All was well for the Ismails until a strange phone call the in the morning of Saturday, December 12. It was a day after over 300 schoolboys were seized from Government Science Secondary School in Kankara, Katsina State. Sixteen-year-old Musa Ismail, their son is a Secondary Secondary School student 2 in the school. “On Saturday […]
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The video of the Kankara schoolboys released by Boko Haram several hours before the students regained freedom indicates that the terror group was involved, but the saga leaves more questions than answers. “Even if I didn’t say anything, here are my people speaking and here are your boys speaking too,” said Boko Haram leader Abubakar […]
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At least four intermediary groups are currently in talks with Boko Haram sub-faction in northwest Nigeria with the aim of getting the terror group release the over 500 secondary school students it abducted last Friday, HumAngle has learnt. A top government official told this newspaper on Thursday that all options are being explored to secure […]
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A family member of one of the kidnapped Kankara schoolboys who spoke in a video recently released by Boko Haram has been identified and named. He is Sani AbdulHamid. The member of AbdulHamid’s family, who said he was his brother, described him as a “very hard working SS2 student” and said his abduction has left […]
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Members of the Coalition of Northern Groups (CNG) have arrived in Katsina town to join other protesters from Kano, Jigawa and Katsina states in a peaceful demonstration to demand the rescue of the abducted Kankara schoolboys. The protest under the hashtag, #BringBackOurBoys, is scheduled to start on Thursday and is expected to proceed to Daura, […]
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Aminu Masari, Governor of Katsina State has told BBC Hausa Service that the abducted Kankara schoolboys are in a forest in Zamfara State with their abductors. Masari also said that the number of students with the terror group is now 400 as against the initial 333 that he told a presidential delegation on Sunday. The […]
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The Zamfara State Government on Tuesday announced the dissolution of all committees set up for the turbaning of Gov. Bello Muhammad Matawalle as Shatima of Sokoto. The Chairman of the Central Committee of the event and former Minister of State for Finance, Amb. Bashir Yuguda, who announced the dissolution, explained that the decision was taken […]
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