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© Blavity, Inc., 2020 Students wear protective face masks and keep distances in a class on resumption of studies at Access International Schools, in Magboro, Ogun State, southwest Nigeria, on August 4, 2020. / Photo Credit: (Photo by PIUS UTOMI EKPEI/AFP via Getty Images) Nigerian Parents Make Plea To #BringBackOurBoys After Over 300 Students Are Abducted From School Families in the Nigerian state of Katsina are outraged about the government response to a recent mass abduction. December 14, 2020 at 11:21 pm The parents of more than 300 children in Nigeria are demanding answers after a group ...

Boys escaped through forest after gunmen abducted their friends at Nigeria school By Ismail Abba and Afolabi Sotunde Muhammed Abubakar, a 15-year-old boy who escaped from men who kidnapped hundreds of students from his school, looks on in Kankara KANKARA, Nigeria (Reuters) – Usama Aminu was one of the lucky ones. He managed to escape when gunmen abducted more than 300 pupils from his school in northwestern Nigeria. “When I decided to run they brought a knife to slaughter me but I ran away quickly,” he said, sitting on a mat and speaking softly as he described how he had been...

15 Dec 2020 / 01:40 H. (Corrects spelling of state governor to Masari, not Masri, in paragraph 6) By Ismail Abba and Afolabi Sotunde KANKARA, Nigeria, Dec 14 (Reuters) - Usama Aminu was one of the lucky ones. He managed to escape when gunman abducted more than 300 pupils from his school in northwestern Nigeria. "When I decided to run they brought a knife to slaughter me but I ran away quickly," he said, sitting on a mat and speaking softly as he described how he had been in bed at the all-boys school in Kankara when he heard gunshots on Friday night. At first, he said, the boys thought the c...

More than 300 schoolboys are still missing after gunmen attacked a secondary school in Kankara, a town in Nigeria’s northwestern Katsina state, authorities said. Attackers on motorcycles stormed the all-boys Government Science School late on Friday and engaged security forces in a fierce gun battle, forcing hundreds of students to flee and hide in the surrounding forest. “So far we are yet to account for 333 pupils,” Katsina Governor Aminu Masari said on Sunday after a meeting with security officials, adding that the boarding school had a total of 839 students. Masari said students who ...