Armed Men Attack University in North Nigeria, Kidnap Number of Students

A group of armed men attacked a university in Kaduna State north Nigeria. One person was killed and an unknown number of students were kidnapped.

Mohamed Gleg, a spokesman of the local police said during statements to 24 France Channel, the armed men stormed the university and took away an undefined number of students chanced to be on the campus.

Two officials of the ill-starred university told the French channel that about twenty students were kidnapped but another number of students could flee to the neighboring districts.

Samuel Arwan Minister of Interior in Kaduna stated, during a press conference, that the attack occurred and a staffer at the university was murdered.

It is worth noting that gangs are known as the "brigands" launch attacks in the northern parts of Nigeria throughout the last months.

Pupils and students were kidnapped from educational institutions to take ransom from their relatives to free wretched lads and lassies.

Since December 2020, about 730 teenagers were kidnapped in northern Nigeria.

Early in March 2020, a band of armed men attacked a boarding school affiliated with a secondary school for vocational education and kidnapped 49 students, only ten of whom were released.

The kidnappers published harsh videos showing the victims being flogged and demanding their families and the authorities to pay a ransom.

Over a press conference held last week, the head of the Relatives' Association denounced the inaction of the Kaduna state authorities, which prevented any negotiations with the kidnappers.

Fradi Sani, an official of the federation, said that the kidnapped children have not been able to shower for 36 days, and they are not eating well, they do not have clean water to drink, and they have neither clothes nor medicine.

Several states in northern and central Nigeria imposed the closure of their schools for security reasons, which raised fears of exacerbating the school dropout crisis, especially among girls, in these poor and rural areas that suffer from the highest rates of non-enrollment.