Out of school: Concerns as millions of children face bleak future in Northern Nigeria

Across parts of bluish Nigeria, classrooms beryllium partially bare or, successful immoderate cases, afloat closed arsenic insecurity forces students to enactment home.

Attacks, abductions and threats person eroded assurance successful the information of schools, leaving families with intolerable choices.

The situation has unfolded implicit much than a decade. On 14 April. 2014, Boko Haram militants abducted 276 schoolgirls from Government Girls Secondary School successful Chibok, Borno State, drafting planetary attraction and inspiring the #ChibokGirls campaign.

Subsequent attacks deepened the clime of fear. On 19 February, 2018, 112 girls were kidnapped from Government Girls Science and Technical College successful Dapchi, Yobe State.

Most were released wrong a month, but Leah Sharibu remains successful captivity.

In December 2020, implicit 300 students were abducted successful Kankara, Katsina State.

In February 2021, 317 girls were taken from a schoolhouse successful Jangebe, Zamfara State. Niger State besides witnessed abductions successful Kagara, highlighting the geographic dispersed of insecurity.

According to Amnesty International, astatine slightest 15 wide abductions of schoolchildren person occurred crossed bluish Nigeria since 2014.

Save the Children reports that 1,683 learners were abducted betwixt 2014 and 2022, with countless others affected ...