Desperate Nigerians are caught in the midst of a rash of abductions across the impoverished northwest of Nigeria, where thousands of bandits ask for hefty ransoms from families in return for their kidnapped children.

Some 200 children were abducted by unknown armed bandits from an Islamic school in north-central Niger state on Sunday.

Hundreds of Nigerian students are presumed missing or kidnapped after gunmen stormed a secondary school in the country’s restive northwest.

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari criticizes foreign media outlets’ coverage of recent protests in his country over years of recurring police brutality.

There are calls by some Nigerians on President Muhammadu Buhari to resign following the seemingly endless waves of insecurity in Nigeria.

Nearly a dozen people are killed as gunmen storm a village and open fire on locals in Nigeria’s northwestern state of Kaduna.

It was the latest in a series of attacks in the northeast.