Insecurity: Edo government shuts down three public schools

By Ozioruva Aliu
BENIN CITY – THE Edo State government on Wednesday said it has shut down three public secondary schools till further notice due to security concerns.
The decision may not be unconnected to a leaked memo from the Department of State Services (DSS) to the State Commandant of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), in which the intelligence agency said it had uncovered a planned abduction in public schools in Edo North Senatorial District.
The document also claimed that a communication between two suspects in which the plot was being planned was intercepted, and that an individual was arrested at one of the public schools in the area, apparently on a sur...