Recent and continued attacks on schools and abduction of staff and students, especially in the North, is gradually affecting academic activities in the region, as parents and students become wary....

On December 11, more than 300 schoolboys from Government Science Secondary School, Kankara in Katsina, were kidnapped by bandits though they were later released.

There is ray of hope for millions of Nigeria’s out-of-school children as the United Nations, World Bank and regional development banks are set to fund the education sector.