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Mar

2024

Gunmen kidnap 15 students in dawn raid on Nigerian school

GUNMEN kidnapped at least 15 students from a school in Nigeria's northwestern Sokoto state in a dawn raid, the school's owner and a resident said, days after some 300 students were abducted by a gang in northern Kaduna state. The gunmen forced their way into the school premises in the Sokoto village of Gidan Bakuso and started firing shots sporadically, waking and causing panic among the students, who ran for cover, said school owner Liman Abubakar Bakuso. "They succeeded in abducting 15 of my students, the oldest being 20 and 15, but all the others are below 13," said Bakuso by phone,…

Apr

2023

By GABRIELLA OPARA, BIRD STORY AGENCY

Nigeria: Plastic bottles replace school fees

NEWS

WHEN a neighbour recommended Morit International School to Ijeoma Obiora three years ago and told her the tuition was paid not in cash but through plastic bottles, she found it hard to believe. She had never heard of such a thing. Today, her 13-year-old daughter has comfortably settled into the school. Patrick Mbamarah, Proprietor of Morit International School. Photo Courtesy: Patrick Mbamarah “Academically, the school is very good for my daughter, who’s now in JSS 1. Financially, it removes my worries about having to provide education for her on a stringent budget. These days, the first thing I do when…

Mar

2022

By The African Mirror

For 25 cents a day, poor Nigerians get a shot at science education

EDUCATION

ABRAHAM ACHIRGA A Nigerian school is targeting students from poor families to give them a chance to excel at science, maths and engineering for a fee of 100 naira (25 cents) a day, hoping they can hone skills to help their families escape poverty. One student, 12-year-old Faridat Bakare who enrolled at Knosk Secondary School in Abuja in 2020, a year after it opened, has set her sights on becoming an engineer. In a technical laboratory at the school, she shows off a prototype for a solar-powered car made from cardboard, which she developed with her classmates. "I want to…

Jun

2021

By The African Mirror

Nigerian policeman killed, 80 students abducted

NEWS

GUNMEN have killed a police officer and kidnapped at least 80 students and five teachers from a school in the Nigerian state of Kebbi, police, residents and a teacher said. The attack is the third mass kidnapping in three weeks in northwest Nigeria, which have authorities have attributed to armed bandits seeking ransom payments. Usman Aliyu, a teacher at the school, said the gunmen took more than 80 students, most of them girls. "They killed one of the (police officers), broke through the gate and went straight to the students' classes," he told Reuters. Kebbi State police spokesman Nafiu Abubakar,…

Feb

2021

By The African Mirror

Gunmen kill student, kidnap 42 in Nigeria

NEWS

GARBA MUHAMMAD UNIDENTIFIED gunmen killed a student in an overnight attack on a boarding school in north-central Nigeria yesterday, witnesses said, and the regional government said 42 others including some staff and relatives were kidnapped. The assailants stormed the Government Science secondary school in the Kagara district of Niger state at around 2 a.m., overwhelming the school's security detail, according to local residents. One student was killed in the attack, teacher Aliyu Isa and a pupil at the school told local TV news station Channels. Another teacher, who did not want to be named, also told Reuters that one student…

Feb

2021

By The African Mirror

Gunmen storm Nigerian school, kidnap students

NEWS

GARBA MUHAMMAD UNIDENTIFIED gunmen attacked a secondary school in Nigeria's Niger state overnight and abducted many students, the state governor's spokeswoman said today. The assailants stormed the Government Science college in the Kagara district at around 2 a.m., overwhelming the school's security detail, according to local residents. The spokeswoman said many students had been abducted, but did not specify how many. It was not immediately clear who was responsible for the attack. President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday condemned the raid, and dispatched security chiefs to coordinate operations to rescue the abducted students, his spokesman said. Militant Islamist group Boko Haram…