March 23, 2024: Over the past decade, the nightmare of school abductions in Nigeria, which began with the infamous kidnapping of 276 schoolgirls in Chibok on April 14, 2014, has persisted with over 1,400 students kidnapped since. This harrowing trend underscores a disturbing evolution of targeted attacks on educational institutions, escalating with recent kidnappings in northwestern Nigeria, including 287 students in Kaduna State on March 7, 2024, and 15 in Sokoto State on March 9, 2024. The article, supported by a decade-long timeline of abductions, paints a grim picture of the challenges facing Nigeria’s security and education sectors.
A decade since the Chibok abduction, more than 1,400 Nigerian students have been kidnapped
Updated on March 23, 2024