A Family's Agony in the Dark: Cadet Vanishes from Nigerian Defence Academy as Seven-Month Search Yields No Answers
For over seven agonizing months, the family of 21-year-old Cadet Stephen Kubuma Gani has been trapped in a nightmare with no end in sight. Their son vanished from inside the walls of the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA) in Kaduna under baffling circumstances. Now, with pleas for official help seemingly ignored, they are breaking their silence, demanding to know if their child is alive and why one of Nigeria's most secure military institutions has left them without answers. The Disappearance and the Contradictions Cadet Stephen Kubuma Gani, a Naval cadet studying Geography, was last heard from on the afternoon of Sunday, April 27, 2025. He called his family from a roommate's phone to confirm his safe return to the Academy after the Easter break. The Official Account: The family's ordeal began two days later, on April 29, when they were informed by an NDA officer that Gani was missing. They were told he was present for a nighttime bed check, then stepped...