How Nigeria’s ‘Guns For Cows’ Offer Backfires With Spate Of Abducted Schoolchildren

LAGOS MARCH 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-As a gangster, arms dealer and kidnapper extraordinaire, Awwalun Daudawa looked like a character beyond reform. Last December, he masterminded one of Nigeria’s biggest-ever school kidnappings, abducting more than 300 boys in Katsina, the home state of President Muhammadu Buhari. A week later, the boys were freed, amid widespread rumours that Mr…

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Covid-19:: Madagascar Minister Over Plans To Order $2m Sweet For Schoolchildren

LAGOS JUNE 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Madagascar’s education minister has been fired over plans to order more than $2m (£1.6m) worth of sweets for schoolchildren. Rijasoa Andriamanana said pupils would be given three lollipops each to mask the “bitter” aftertaste of an untested herbal remedy for coronavirus. The plan was called off after objections from Madagascar’s president. President…

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