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Insecurity: Global Rights reports 1, 603 Nigerians killed within Q1 of 2021
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By Gabriel Ewepu – Abuja
An international rights organization, Global Rights Nigeria, Sunday, reported 1, 603 Nigerians were killed in the first quarter of 2021.
The report tagged ‘Violent Incidents Report: January 2021’ which was made available to Vanguard attributed the killings to ‘mass atrocities across the country between January and March 2021.
According to the report, there has been Harvest of Abductions, Insecurity of Security Officers, Ethnic/communal tensions, Unending Terrors, and others, which have worsened the insecurity situation across the country.
The report also pointed that banditry alone claimed 906 lives, which made it the highest cause of killings in the country and followed by Boko Haram attacks claiming 207 lives in Nigeria while kidnapping recorded 1, 774 abductees within the period under review.
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Pupils of Fakunle Comprehensive High School, Osogbo, Osun State; Ekulu Primary School, GRA, Enugu; Junior Secondary School, Federal Low-cost estate, Maiduguri, Borno State and
Oyemekun Grammar School, Akure, Ondo State during their resumption…on Monday. Photos: Bola Bamigbola, Raphael Ede, Dogara Bitrus and Peter Dada
Published 7 May 2021
NIGERIA’S descent further into the pit of state failure is becoming embarrassingly evident in its inability to protect schoolchildren from banditry. It is worrying that seven years after the abduction of 276 girls of Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State, which attracted global outrage, things have taken a more dangerous dimension as attacks on schools have now become commonplace. Though the news that 27 students at the Forestry College, Kaduna regained their freedom on Wednesday after 56 days in the kidnappers’ den offered a crumb of comfort, there is a seeming lack of
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The House of Representatives on Thursday unveiled plans to investigate the utilisation of the N43 billion Safe School Initiative and other donations.
Breakdown of the funds accrued for the implementation of the programme showed that $20 million was donated for the take-off of the Safe School Initiative project in 2014 and as at 2018 a total of $1,720,246 (N41 billion) has been realised as donations from countries and donor agencies.
However, not much is on the ground to indicate seriousness to fully implement the laudable objectives of the initiative as it relates to the safety of schools, students, teachers and facilities.
The resolution was passed sequel to the adoption of a motion on the ‘Need to investigate the failure of N2 billion Safe School Initiative Intervention Programme’ sponsored by Honourable Aniekan Umanah.
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