Gunmen kidnap pupils in Nigeria’s restive northwest
Kano, Nigeria, March 15 (AFP/APP): Gunmen on Monday seized an unspecified number of primary school pupils and teachers in the northwestern Nigerian state of Kaduna, the government said, in a region wracked by banditry and kidnapping. The raid is the latest in a string of attacks on schools in Nigeria, coming just four days after 39 college students were kidnapped by a gang. Kaduna’s home affairs commissioner, Samuel Aruwan, said the government had received security reports that “some pupils and teachers” had been abducted at the LEA Primary School in Rema, in the Birnin Gwari area. The authorities are “currently obtaining … Continue reading Gunmen kidnap pupils in Nigeria’s restive northwest
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