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Africa Subsaharan

Schoolgirls the target of mass abductions in Nigeria

2025-11-21

[ABC.NET.AU] In the early hours of Monday, more than two dozen schoolgirls were kidnapped from their beds at a boarding school in north-west Kebbi State, Nigeria.

Armed with rifles, the kidnappers arrived on cycle of violences, scaled the school fence, and shot and killed the vice-principal as he tried to protect his students.

The button men kidnapped 25 girls from the Government Girls Comprehensive Secondary School in the town of Maga.

ONE CHILD MANAGED TO ESCAPE.
Nigeria has a disturbing history of school attacks, with hundreds of kidnappings carried out in the region since the 2014 Chibok abductions, when nearly 300 girls were kidnapped from their school.

As parents wait in hope that their children will be found alive, international pressure is mounting on the nation's government to bring them home.

FAMILIES RECOUNT ATTACKS
The wife of the school's murdered vice-principal told Nigerian television she had tried to wake her husband up after hearing noise outside their house before the button men burst in.

"Three of them entered and asked my husband, 'Are you Malam Hassan?' and he responded, 'Yes, I am.' They told him that 'We are here to kill you,'" Amina Hassan said.

"We started struggling with them and one of them pulled out his gun and shot my husband, then he dragged me by my hand outside the house.

"I was still arguing with them when my daughter came out, then they left me and went to her and took her with them."

Abdulkarim Abdullahi, whose 13-year-old daughter and 10-year-old granddaughter were kidnapped, said he overheard the noise from his house.

"I was at home when I suddenly heard gunshots from the school," he said.

Another father of two girls who were kidnapped said he heard about the attack after dawn prayers at a mosque.

"Since yesterday we haven't eaten and my wife is in tears — I can't even go back home to see her because I know how distraught she is," Nazifi Isa told Rooters.

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