Nigerian authorities have reopened schools in northern Kaduna state after closing them for two months due to insecurity. The region has suffered a string of armed kidnappings and the U.N. Children’s Fund, UNICEF, says about one million Nigerian childre…
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Young climate activists from Greta Thunberg’s Friday for Future movement resumed mass street protests on Friday for the first time since the pandemic began, demanding drastic action from global leaders ahead of U.N. climate talks in November.From Nairo…
ABUJA— Three people suspected of abducting more than 100 students from a Christian school in northwestern Nigeria two months ago have been arrested, police said.On July 5, gunmen invaded the Bethel Baptist Secondary School on the outskirts of Kaduna an…
Bandits have released 10 more students kidnapped two months ago from a Baptist school in northwest Nigeria, the school administrator told Reuters on Saturday.The Rev. John Hayab, administrator of the Bethel Baptist High school, said 21 students from th…
The U.N. Children’s Fund in Nigeria said at least 1 million Nigerian children could miss school this year because of insecurity, as schools in the north of the country have been targeted by armed groups in a series of mass kidnappings for ransom.UNICEF…