· Demands audit of $30m Safe School Initiative
Gboyega Akinsanmi
No fewer than 939 students have been kidnapped from different secondary schools and tertiary institutions across the federation between December 2020 and May 2021, a new survey that tracks kidnapping incidents in schools has revealed.
With the rising incidents of students’ abduction, Global Rights, a Washington-based human rights organisation, asked the federal government to audit the Safe School Initiative, a $30 million project initiated under the Goodluck Jonathan administration to protect schools nationwide.
The organisation yesterday released the report of its study to THISDAY, graphically showing the trajectory of mass abduction that occurred in secondary schools and tertiary institutions from December 2020 and May 2021.
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Published 3 June 2021
To convince Nigerians that she did not call one of her constituents a thug last week, Senator Oluremi Tinubu told interviewers the following: “… she kept screaming and I said what is going on, are you a thug? I am not going to take that. Are you a thug? Am I talking to a thug? Then, her eyes were popping and popping. She is younger than I am, why would I call her a thug outright?”
At the end of it, Mrs Tinubu’s explanation wasn’t a denial of the fact that she employed the word “thug” on a Lagosian, who is obviously not a thug (forget that the so-called thugs are created and sustained by a special economy reliant on politicians) but that she did not put a definite, positive “thug” tag on the citizen. In other words, inquiring from the lady whether she was a thug and suggesting that she was behaving like one are better ways of handling the situation than calling her a thug outright. Madam Senator should therefore be
There is this inexorable sliding down the slope of the cliff in most parts of the world. In Nigeria, robust discourse is fast giving way to rancorous threats of violent conflict.
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) Authorities have confirmed that 136 students were abducted by gunmen in northern Nigeria earlier this week, including some as young as 5 years old, the school’s owner said Thursday. Gunmen on motorcycles targeted Salihu Tanko Islamic School on Sunday, killing one person and abducting three teachers as well, school owner Umar […]