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The gunmen who abducted more than one hundred students from a boarding school in northern Nigeria have contacted the school officials informing them that the abductees were alive and in "good health.’’ The armed criminal gangs stormed the school in Kaduna state on Monday seizing the students from their dormitories. It’s the latest in a wave of mass kidnappings for ransom in Nigeria that saw more than one thousand students seized in the last seven months. Muhammad Kabir Isa is a Professor of Governance & Administration at Ahmadu Bello University, he's in Zaria, in Kaduna state and said Nigeria lacked far behind other countries in its security spending..

(Picture: Inside Bethel Baptist High School where an unspecified number of students were kidnapped at Damishi, Kaduna, Nigeria July 7, 2021. Credit: Reuters)