Insecurity: Northern govs support state police, suspend mining
Group of Norther governors *Warn region will collapse if... *Terrorists abduct nursing mother, 10 others in Kano *Panic at Abuja school as students mistake soldiers for kidnappers *Police foil planned mass kidnap attack in Abuja, kill 3 bandits *Abducted Niger schoolchildren are doing fine, will return soon - Ribadu *Tinubu must enforce emergency declaration on security — Experts Northern governors havewarned that the region on the brink of losing its future to insecurity and deepening poverty, unless leaders took urgent, decisive action. They also called for state police as a way out of the high level insecurity in the north, and asked for a 6-month ban on mining in the region. This is even as Kaduna State governor, Senator Uba Sani, urged his peers and traditional rulers to close ranks and confront the region’s growing security threats with honesty and unity. The governors spoke at a time residents of Tsamiya village in Shanono Local Government Area of Kano State weekend came under a...