Schools Without Guns
The number of Nigeria s charting-topping out-of-school children are on a steady increase. Currently, about 10.5 million Nigerian kids are out-of-school. One in every five of the world s out of school children is in Nigeria, according to the United Nations Children s Emergency Fund (UNICEF). Owing to sociocultural and socioeconomic factors, and other structural vulnerabilities, thousands of children in Nigeria may never attend school. The possibility of being in school is also impacted by violence and conflict.
On Friday 11th December 2020, hundreds of schoolboys were abducted in Kankara, Katsina state by armed bandits. The attack replicates the 2014 abduction of 276 schoolgirls in Chibok by Boko Haram insurgents; about 100 of the girls are still missing. In reaction to the Kankara boys abduction, Jigawa and Zamfara state governments have closed down schools in their states.
Nigeria: From Chibok to Kankara
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From Chibok to Kankara
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