Insurgency, Banditry Have Forced Over 12m Children Out Of School, Says Presidency

Insurgency, Banditry Have Forced Over 12m Children Out Of School, Says Presidency

File photo of an empty classroom in Abuja. PHOTO: Sodiq Adelakun/Channels TV

 

The Presidency has lamented the impact of insurgency and banditry on school attendance in the country noting that over 12 million children have been forced out of school.

Chief of Staff to the President, Ibrahim Gambari said this on Tuesday at the fourth International Conference on Safe Schools Declaration in Abuja.

Gambari, who represented President Muhammadu Buhari at the event lamented the increasing trend of school kidnaping noting that although the abducted students are eventually released, the trauma…

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