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Freed students battling health challenges as parents await govt assistance

By TVC News Nigeria
16 May 2021   |   12:48 pm
Days after their release from captivity, some of the students of the College of Forestry Mechanization in Kaduna are still in the hospital receiving treatment for different health issues.

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