Hello and welcome to the Intelligence from the Economist. I'm your host, Jason Palmer.

Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

Samsung Electronics is the crown jewel of South Korea's Chai Bowl, the country's often

family-run conglomerates. We examine its rocky succession and the new bosses ambitious plans

to take on the world's largest makers of processor chips.

And, as the latest adaptation of the sci-fi classic Dune hits cinemas in Britain, we look

back at previous attempts. The genre is notoriously difficult to adapt to the big screen, but Dune's

new version may at last be doing the book justice.

Next up though.

Nigeria is coming apart at the seams. Earlier this week, a criminal gang killed 43 people

at a village market in the northwestern state of Sukoto, just the latest in a growing number

of unpredictable attacks. The northwest is also a hotspot for kidnappings. Last month

Nigerian police commissioner Frank Mba paraded three suspects in front of the press.

These suspects played very key rules. In the recent kidnapped of over a hundred students.

Through a translator, he questioned each one of them about the abduction of students

over the summer.

How many of you kidnapped the students of better baptist high school?

How many of the students were kidnapped?

The kidnapper said they did it because they needed the money. It's not just the north

of the country. Violence and fear across Nigeria are reaching levels not seen since

the country's civil war in the late 1960s. According to UNICEF, there have been 20 attacks

on schools this year with around 1500 children abducted.

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