Nigeria confronts second mass kidnapping of schoolchildren in nine days after 317 girls vanish
Gunmen raided a boarding school in northwestern Nigeria early Friday and kidnapped more than 300 girls, marking the third mass abduction of children since December in Africa’s most populous nation. The assailants struck the Government Girls Secondary School in Zamfara state in a predawn ambush, teachers and residents said, waking up the town as shots […]
IDPs, trauma and living culture.
Sani has been living in an IDP camp with his mum and two sisters for 6 months, after their village was attacked by gunmen and he lost his dad and his home got destroyed in the fire, hence they had to move to the camp . Life in the camp is very different from what […]
Nigeria: UN Chief Condemns Attack On School
The United Nations Secretary-General has strongly condemned Wednesday’s attack on a boarding school in north-central Nigeria, in which one student was killed and several students, as well as relatives and staff, abducted. According to reports, gunmen stormed the Government Science College Kagara, in the Niger state of Nigeria, at around 2 am (local time). Many […]
Nigeria: Bandits Storm Nigerian School, Kidnap Many Students
The exact number of students kidnapped by the bandits has not been ascertained. Suspected bandits have abducted some students of the Government Science School, Kagara in Niger State. The bandits were dressed in military uniforms when they attacked the boarding school Tuesday night, reported PRNigeria, a news agency with close ties to Nigerian security agencies. […]
The agony of the Girl child within our today’s school system.
Esther was the form teacher’s favorite, everyone thought so as he showed favoritism when it came to her, always buying her gifts and giving her high test scores he always made her stay behind after school to help him score assessment tests, or run one errand or another this was just an excuse he used […]
Causes of Global Learning Crisis.
Millions more are in classrooms but don’t get a quality education – here we look at some of the causes of a global learning crisis. Despite the Sustainable Development Goal to have every child in school and learning by 2030, there are still 260 million children who don’t go to primary or secondary school. Without […]
Violence against children is a crime.
Violence against children is one of society’s vices and it’s after effects is long still witnessed ewhen these children grow into adults.Violence is any form of inflicting harm or pain to a person with severe effects either emotionally, physically, or sexual.This practice is in almost all countries and is perpetuated by those close to the […]