Tag: Students
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Teachers, supervisors, students escape as gunmen halts WASSCE in Imo
Gunmen on Monday stopped students from taking English Language paper in the ongoing WASSCE being written by senior secondary school students at the Comprehensive Secondary School, Nkume in the Njaba Local Government Area of Imo state. Sources revealed that the students were preparing to start the examinations when the attackers came and chased them away.…
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Kidnappings: Atiku lectures Buhari-led govt on how to secure schools
Atiku Abubakar, Former Vice President of Nigeria has told the Federal Government to have a School Protection Standby Unit deployed exclusively to protect schools in areas prone to attacks. He said this while reacting to news of students abduction in Government secondary schools in Kaya, Zamfara State. The former Vice President in a post on…
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BREAKING: Bandits attack another Zamfara school, abduct students
Bandits have abducted a yet-to-be ascertained number of students following an attack on Kaya Day Secondary School in Zamfara State. According to a report by Channels Television, the incident occurred at about 11 am on Wednesday in Maradun Local Government Area of the state. A source within the government, who pleaded anonymity, confirmed the attack…
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Another 32 Bethel Baptist School students freed
Another 32 students out of the 63 remaining abducted students of Bethel Baptist school in Chikun Local Government area of Kaduna State have regained their freedom. A top official of the school confirmed the new development on Friday. He further said that the freed students have been handed over to their parents. The kidnappers had…
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Bandits kidnap ransom bearer in Niger
Bandits in Niger state have abducted a negotiator who had been sent to pay ransom to secure the release of 136 students kidnapped on 29 May from the Salihu Tanko Islamic school in Tegina. The negotiator, a 60-year-old man from the community, was taken because kidnappers said the ransom he brought was short. Abubakar Alhassan,…
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Police rescue two abducted Bethel Baptist School Students
Two of the abducted students of Bethel Baptist Secondary school in Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State have been rescued by police operatives. According to reports, they were rescued on Wednesday evening by police operatives in Rijanna area along the Kaduna-Abuja highway. Confirming the rescue, the spokesman of the Kaduna state police command, Mohammed…
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Nuggets as Nigeria hosts 4th conference on safe schools declaration? Ozioma Onyenweaku
By Ozioma Onyenweaku Come October 25th TO 27th 2021, Nigeria will play host to the 4th Conference on Safe Schools. The Conference will hold in Abuja, the Capital of Nigeria. It has been stated that the Conference aims at providing an opportunity for countries that have committed to the Safe Schools Idea “to galvanize action…
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UNILAG shuts hostels after students test positive for COVID-19, resumes virtual learning
The management of the University of Lagos (UNILAG) has ordered students to vacate hostels on campus over fears of COVID-19. There were fears in the university community on Tuesday after a number of students contracted the disease. The development led the school management to convey an emergency Senate meeting on Wednesday. In a statement issued…
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Kidnapped Kaduna polytechnic staff, students freed
The six students and two staff members of Nuhu Bamali Polytechnic in Zaria Kaduna State, who were kidnapped by bandits have been released. They were released on Thursday night at an undisclosed location in Kaduna. The Public Relations Officer of the Polytechnic, Abdullahi Shehu, who confirmed the development to said the kidnapped students and staff…
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Borno College provost suspends students who shunned welcoming Buhari to Maiduguri
Borno’s Commissioner of Health and Human Services, Juliana Bitrus, has on Friday, issued a query to the provost, College of Nursing and Midwifery, Rukaiya Shettima Mustapha, for suspending some students under the claim, that the students failed to join others, in welcoming President Muhammadu Buhari on June 17 in Maiduguri. The commissioner, described the provost…