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Abducted students: Allow more time for negotiation, parents plead with bandits
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By Adesina Wahab
The National Parent Teacher Association of Nigeria, NAPTAN, has appealed to the bandits who abducted some students of Greenfield University, Kaduna State to allow more time for negotiation that will lead to the peaceful resolution of the crisis at hand.
The National President of NAPTAN, Alhaji Haruna Danjuma, who spoke in an interview with Vanguard on Tuesday, also pleaded with the bandits not to allow the faceoff between them and the Kaduna State Government push them into taking irrational action.
Danjuma also called on the bandits to fear God and not kill the innocent students.
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By Adesina Wahab
Nigeria has the unenviable record of having the highest number of out-of-school children, OSC, in the world, it is currently put at over 15 million.
Also, the country is among the leaders in the Misery Index calculation, no thanks to a number of factors.
Misery Index is the measurement of the impact of unemployment, inflation, and other factors on a nation’s economy and the resultant effects on the lives of the citizens.
Recently, the National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, came out with some startling figures. Unemployment rose from 27.1% to 33.3% in the fourth quarter of 2020.
That translated to over 23 million Nigerians being out of job, while another 15 million are underemployed. Also,1.4 million people were added to the labour market between the second and third quarters of that year. The inflation rate is about 17%.
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Published 15 March 2021
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Published 15 March 2021
The National Parent Teacher Association of Nigeria and the Coalition of Northern Groups have urged the Federal Government to match its words with actions by stopping kidnapping of students in the country.
The groups, which stated this in separate interviews with The PUNCH on Sunday, recalled that the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), last month said the kidnapping of students of the Government Girls Secondary School, Jangede, Zamfara State would be the last.
They said these as parents of abducted students of the Federal College of Forestry Mechanisation, Afaka, Kaduna State told one of our correspondents that they would on Monday (today) meet the school authorities to discuss the demand of the abductors of their children.