Abductions: Student Leader Warns Of Lasting Scars On Education Sector

Growing school insecurity in Nigeria is drawing fresh concern, with repeated abductions raising fears of lasting damage to education, national growth and trust in schools.
Recent incidents in parts of Oyo and Borno States have heightened concern. While reports of a school invasion in a rural community continue to spark panic in Oyo, renewed fears have emerged in Borno, which has endured over a decade of insurgency-related school attacks.
These developments come at a time when the country is also grappling with insecurity at large.
In an interview with LEADERSHIP, the Secretary General of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), Comrade Oladimeji Uthman, warned that the ...