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Plan International Nigeria has condemned “constant attacks on children and educational facilities” across the country after gunmen took 42 people hostage in a school invasion early Wednesday. Officials have confirmed the 42 taken to include students, staff and some relations from Government Secondary School, Kagara in Niger State. The invasion comes weeks after up to […]

Plan International Nigeria expresses concern over Kagara school abduction Format Abuja, 17th February 2021 Plan International Nigeria has raised concern over the kidnap of dozens of students and staff from a boarding school in Kagara, Niger state. “It is a shame that another kidnapping of school children has occurred again in Kagara, this time in Niger state barely two months after the Kankara, Katsina state incident,” Country Director of the non-governmental organisation working on girls�...

Maryam Abeeb, Abuja The Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Education, Arch. Sonny Echono, has revealed that preparations are being made to ensure that the country successfully hosts the forthcoming international conference on Safe Schools Declaration(SSD). Echono disclosed this in Abuja while hosting a delegation of the Deputy Heads of Mission of Norway, Argentina and Spain who visited to ascertain the country’s level of preparedness for the conference scheduled for the 25th of October, ...

Education Cannot Wait and partners launch multi-year education programme to deliver education to over 800,000 children affected by crises in Burkina Faso Format ECW invests initial US$11.1 million to roll out the 3-year US$59 million programme 14 January 2021, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso – Together with the Government of Burkina Faso, UNICEF and Enfants du Monde, Education Cannot Wait (ECW) – the global fund dedicated to education in emergencies and protracted crises – launched today a new ...

Education Cannot Wait (ECW), the global fund dedicated to education in emergencies and protracted crises, together with the Government of Burkina Faso, UNICEF and Enfants du Monde, launched a new multi-year programme to provide education to over 800,000 children and adolescents in Burkina Faso. The new programme benefits from an initial three-year $11.1 million allocation in seed funding from ECW to be implemented by UNICEF ($6.1 million) and Enfants du Monde ($5 million) in collaboration with...

Five things you need to know this week about global education (December 18, 2020) Format A child runs in a field in a village in Katsina state, northwest Nigeria © UNICEF / Nesbitt Our news roundup features the reported rescue of over 300 kidnapped schoolboys in Nigeria and $1.5 billion in funding to improve education in low-income countries. Abducted students back home after rescue Dozens of kidnapped schoolboys are reported to have arrived back home today after security forces rescued them i...

  Plan International, a non-governmental organisation focused on girls’ rights, says the Nigerian government has not learnt from past experiences. Making references to the abduction of over 200 schoolgirls from Chibok in 2014, and a similar incident in Dapchi Secondary School in 2018, the organisation said government should have put in place adequate security to prevent the attack that occurred in Katsina over the weekend.   Gunmen had, on Friday, attacked Government Science Secondary Schoo...

Advertisement Making references to the abduction of over 200 schoolgirls from Chibok in 2014, and a similar incident in Dapchi Secondary School in 2018, the organisation said government should have put in place adequate security to prevent the attack that occurred in Katsina over the weekend. Gunmen had, on Friday, attacked Government Science Secondary School, Kankara, Katsina, with over 300 students still missing as of Sunday afternoon. Hussaini Abdu, Plan International’s country director in...