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Deteriorating insecurity in Niger and Kaduna states is taking a significant toll on education in the two states. Parents now withdraw their children from schools in the states to safer parts of the nation.

"The children of Nigeria are the future of Nigeria. Yet, they are being physically and emotionally traumatised, kidnapped, sexually assaulted, forcibly married, and sometimes killed."

President Muhammadu Buhari says his administration remains committed to ensuring safety in schools to protect investments...

Buhari is worried about the trauma students and teachers face when abducted. | Pulse Nigeria

President Muhammadu Buhari will, on Tuesday, declare open, the fourth International Conference on Safe Schools Declaration.

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari has Says several interventions have been put in place to ensure that all children are protected from incessant attacks, kidnappings, violence, abuse and exploitation. Buhari made the disclosure at the 2021 National Children’s Day celebrations, organised by the Federal Ministry of Women Affairs, under the leadership of Dame Pauline […]

Views: Visits 5 President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo (middle) with students from North East Children’s Learning Centre, Maiduguri, Borno State at the State House, Abuja…yesterday. PHOTO: PHILIP OJISUA • PDP, group seek better deal for kid President Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday, said his administration was expanding the homegrown school feeding programme by targeting additional three million children for a free daily meal. He made the disclosure at ...

Chibok Girls Anniversary: Plan International calls on Nigeria govt to make more rescue efforts Format 14 Apr 2021 Plan International Nigeria, a non-governmental organisation working on girls’ rights has described as unfortunate and a sad reminder of vulnerability of citizen that seven years on, over a hundred of the 276 schools girls kidnapped from the Government Secondary School, Chibok, Borno state are still in captivity. According to the Interim Director of Plan International Nigeria, Robe...

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Nigeria – ‘Attacks unacceptable, schools should never be a place of fear’ Format Save the Children asks for the immediate release of up to 450 kidnapped schoolgirls in Nigerias Zamfara State. Save the Children is horrified about reports of up to 450 schoolgirls who have been abducted from a school in Nigerias Zamfara state. The aid organisation asks for their immediate release and for any perpetrators to be held to account. Sadly, this is only the latest in a series of abductions in the r...