Amnesty remembers 42 Borno schoolkids 144 days after abduction

Amnesty International Nigeria has decried the prolonged captivity of 42 schoolchildren abducted in Askira Uba Local Government Area of Borno State, 144 days after they were taken.
In a Tuesday statement titled “Nigeria: Borno’s Forgotten Children”, the rights group recalled that the pupils of Mussa Primary and Junior Secondary School were abducted by gunmen on May 15, 2026, and have remained in captivity since then.
Amnesty noted that more abductions have occurred across the north since then and warned that Nigeria is failing its children.
“No child should go through what children are going through now in Nigeria. Education should not be a matter of life and death for anyone. Nigeri...