On April 15, 2014, I sat in my living room in Lagos State, Nigeria, at about 10pm, and watched with rapt attention the breaking news about the kidnap of schoolgirls from a boarding school in Chibok, Borno State by the Boko Haram sect. Whilst I was startled with the news, I went on to Twitter to see the views of people on the kidnap, and to my surprise Twitter was literally on fire.
In present day Northern Nigeria, the schoolgirl seems to face the risk of either being afraid of school or getting kidnapped and used as a bait for ransom whenever she goes to school. This has to stop! I believe in the saying that ‘when you educate a girl, you have educated a nation.’ Recently, in February 2021, there was the kidnapping of 279 schoolgirls in Jangebe, Zamfara State. Schools have been soft targets for this sect. It appears that the leaders of the Boko Haram sect stand on the meaning of their movement to perpetuate acts of violence against school children thereby deterring young children access to good education.
The crisis has also led to international migration as families have sought for asylum in other countries. Most of the intervention that the people of the Northeastern part of Nigeria have gotten so far has been from International NGOs. International Organisations like the UNDP and UNHCR- https://www.unhcr.
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