Nigeria's School Kidnapping Crisis: The Numbers Are Getting Worse
Nigeria's School Kidnapping Crisis: A Nation on Edge [IMAGE: Map representing Northern/Central Nigeria security zones] Introduction The joy of the Ogbomoso rescue, covered in our lead story above, cannot mask a harder truth: Nigeria's mass school abduction crisis has been getting worse, not better. Since the phenomenon began years ago, more than 2,300 students and teachers have been kidnapped nationwide, and data compiled by investigative journalists shows the trend has sharply accelerated under the current administration compared to the years before it. The Numbers Behind the Fear Since President Tinubu's government marked three years in office in late May, it has already recorded well over a dozen mass school kidnapping incidents involving hundreds of students and staff — a dramatic increase compared to a similar period under the previous administration. The Oyo State attack happened in the same stretch of weeks as the abduction of dozens of students from a primary and s...
