The Mass Literacy for Less Privileged and Almajiris Initiative (MALLPAI) Foundation, an NGO, has called for a holistic approach to stop attacks on school children in Nigeria. MALLPAI Foundation was established in 2009 with a core focus to revamp mass literacy and empower youths, unskilled women, and girls. The ILD is celebrated globally on September 8 annually, to explore how literacy can contribute to building a solid foundation for a human-centered recovery, with a focus...

Two students of Federal Government College, Yauri, Kebbi state abducted by bandits have been rescued by the Zamfara state police command. Mr. Hussaini Rabi’u, the state Commissioner of Police, disclosed this at a news conference in Gusau on Sunday. The students had been abducted by bandits in June alongside several other students following an attack on the school. The kidnappers had stormed the school in large numbers, armed with sophisticated weapons. The outlaw gang abducted...

In the early hours of Sunday, Bandits stormed Bakura in Zamfara state and abducted the provost of the College of Agriculture and Animal Science alongside a secondary school teacher. The provost and the school teacher were kidnapped at their residence at Government Secondary School in Bakura. The college’s deputy register, Atiku Aliyu explained that the abductors took the victims from their residence at Government Secondary School Bakura. “Right now, that I am speaking, we don’t...