Nigeria, Nov. 24 -- Four days before abducting 25 students at the Government Girls Comprehensive Secondary School, Maga, armed bandits on 12 November kidnapped over 40 women and their babies in the same local government area in Kebbi State, residents have revealed.

The women were working on a rice farm in the Danko Wasagu Local Government Area when the bandits abducted them.

Residents said bandits had long been abducting residents unchallenged and unreported, until the 17 November abduction of the schoolgirls brought banditry in the area to global attention.

Kabir Yusuf, a youth leader in Danko Wasagu town, told PREMIUM TIMES on Sunday that the LGA, located in the southern senatorial district of the state, is under the siege of a terro...