Banditry and Students’ Abduction: Revisiting the ‘Safe School Initiative’ By Mukhtar Ya’u Madobi

The wave at which insurgency, banditry and kidnappings are rising across Nigeria, without any sign of abating, is alarming. These myriads of insecurity challenges have been inflicting wanton damages on political, socio-economic and educational institutions in the country. Initially, the prime targets of kidnappers are wealthy individuals who can afford ransom of any sum to regain their freedom. But nowadays, the narrative has since dramatically changed, as individuals who live from hand to mouth have now become the targets of these blood-sucking demons. Worse still, this heinous act has been…

SAFE SCHOOL INITIATIVE IN NIGERIA

The United Nations Children Funds,UNICEF in collaboration with the Federal Government launched the safe school initiative in Maiduguri in the aftermath of the Kidnapped of the over 300 girls from the Government Girls Secondary School Chibok. The initiative was launched on 7th May,2014 during the Goodluck Ebele Jonathan Government by Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala,the then Minister of Finance now the DG of the World Trade Organization at Chibok village in Borno State,South-East Nigeria. Almost 7 years after,what has happened to this good programme now that bandits and Boko Haram are having…