Insecurity: Scores of schools in 40 LGAs shut down
•Three states worst hit as non-state actors disrupt learning•Experts warn closures worsening out-of-school crisis, child labour, early marriage, radicalization By Nnamdi Ojiego, Musa Ubandawaki, Umar Yusuf, Ibrahim Hassan-Wuyo, Peter Duru, Ndahi Marama, Golok Nanmwa, Haruna Aliyu, Yauziyya Lawal & Maryam Usman At least 65 secondary and primary schools have been shut or rendered non-functional by insecurity across northern Nigeria, findings by Sunday Vanguard have shown, with the closures cutting across dozens of local government areas and leaving thousands of children without normal access to classroom education.
It has also persisted despite years of government and donor-backed interventions aimed at protecting schools from attacks, including the Safe Schools Initiative launched in 2014 after the abduction of 276 schoolgirls from Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State.
Kebbi In Kebbi State, Government Girls Secondary School, Maga, in Danko/Wasagu Local Government Area, remains shut because of insecurity.
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