About 615 schools have been shut in Kaduna, Zamfara, Katsina, Niger, Bauchi, Plateau and Taraba states due to the fear of terrorists.
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNICEF) in partnership with Global Education Monitoring Report, which revealed this added that the number of out-of-school children in Nigeria rose to 20 million from about 12.5 million recorded in 2021.
According to the report, from 2014 to date , there have more than 1,000 pupils were kidnapped, it said most of the pupils had been freed.
Zamfara State is worst hit with over 100 schools in different parts of the state shut down because of attacks by terrorists.
The reportd gave some of the major school abductions as those of April 14, 2014 where 276 schoolgirls in were kidnapped and 300 pupils from Damasak all in Borno State. These are figures from other states as revealed by the UNICEF; 110 pupils from Dapchi, Yobe State; 344 pupils from Kankara, Katsina State; 276 pupils from Jangebe, Zamfara State; 140 students from Chikun in Kaduna State; and 102 pupils from Yauri, Kebbi State.
In Niger State, nine schools were shut n after the kidnappers took away 27 pupils and 15 otgers from on the Government Science College, Kagara, while in Benue and Adamawa States, unspecified number of schools were sut in perpetually troubled areas.
