Bandits are kidnapping masses of students and teachers with impunity in Nigeria’s wild northwestern states, prompting calls for temporary closure of their schools Students heading into class on Monday at 9:00 a.m. at an elementary school in Rama village in Birnin Gwari, 40 miles west of Kaduna City, were confronted by bandits on motorcycles who abducted three of their teachers and roared off to their forest refuge nearby, according to media reports. Just a day earlier an abduction at the Government Science Secondary School at Ikara, in Kaduna State, was turned back by security men who responded promptly to distress calls from students, according to Stefanos Foundation, a Christian NGO. Yet, 39 students and faculty, chiefly Christian women, at the Federal college of Forestry Mechanization, just north of Kaduna City abducted the morning of March 12 are less lucky.  They are spending their seventh day of captivity under a forest canopy, according to a …