At least 1,823 people, including 1,799 students and 24 teachers were attacked between April 2014 and January 2021.
There were 28 incidents of school attacks in Nigeria; from the Chibok girls’ incident of April 4, 2014 in Borno to the Barikin Ladin attack of January 12, 2021, in Plateau state.
This was disclosed in a factsheet by SB Morgan (SBM) Intelligence.
SBM notes that out of the 28 incidents, 23 were perpetrated by armed bandits, three by insurgents and two by gunmen.
NORTH-WEST — THE HOTBED OF ATTACKS
The factsheet also revealed that out of the four geopolitical zones facing attacks on education, the north-western part of the country is the most impacted.
SBM Intelligence said there were attacks on students in four geopolitical zones of the country — north-west, north-east, north-central and south-east.
The findings said the north-west accounted for the highest number of student victims — with 1,166 students attacked between the years on review — and with 386 and 240 students attacked in the north-west and the north-central respectively.
The report said attacks on teachers in the country only happened in the north-west and the north-central — with 14 teachers attacked in the north-west and 10 in the north-central.
Between April 2014 and January 2021, the reports said, most of the attacks on academic institutions were on secondary schools which witnessed a total of 1,704 attacks on students and 24 on teachers.
KATSINA LEADS WITH HIGHEST ATTACKS ON STUDENTS
It said Katsina, with 439 incidents, had the highest number of student victims followed by Zamfara (417) while the FCT had the least — two victims.
While Borno (276), Niger (232), Kaduna (210), Yobe (110), Kebbi (100), Abia (7), Plateau (4) and Nasarawa (2).
The report said the highest number of attacks on teachers was recorded in Kebbi (5) and Zamfara, Yobe, Niger, Kaduna and the FCT which had four incidents each.
The study further revealed that students in single-sex institutions witnessed more attacks than those in co-educational schools.
