The Federal Government has assured Nigerians that it is doing everything possible to secure the release of female students abducted from Government Girls Secondary School, Maga, in Danko/Wasagu Local Government Area of Kebbi State. Naija News had earlier reported that gunmen had attacked the school in the early hours of Monday, killing a staff member […]

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Gunmen attacked a high school in northwestern Nigeria before dawn on Monday, taking 25 schoolgirls and killing at least one staffer, authorities said of the latest abduction of students in the region. No group immediately...

The attack took place before dawn on Monday. Gunmen also killed the school's vice principal.

Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, has condemned the deadly attack on Government Girls Comprehensive Senior Secondary School, Maga, in Kebbi State, describing it as another grim signal that insecurity in the country has reached alarming levels. In a statement on Monday, Atiku said he was “devastated” by the killing of the school’s Vice-Principal and the […]

Armed groups in Nigeria have been targeting schoolchildren for more than a decade, but there has been an uptick in attacks this year.

The assailants attacked the Maga Comprehensive Girls' Secondary School in Kebbi state, at around 1am on Monday morning. Pictured: Boko Haram with the Nigerian schoolgirls they kidnapped in 2014.

The governor called on security agencies to intensify efforts to rescue the abducted students and bring the perpetrators to justice.

Gunmen abducted 25 students and killed a staff member in a pre-dawn raid on a girls’ secondary school in Nigeria’s Kebbi state on Monday, police said. The attack, blamed on armed bandit gangs, is the…

The Kebbi State Police Command has confirmed the deadly attack on Government Girls Comprehensive Secondary School, Maga, where bandits killed the Vice Principal and abducted 25 students in the early hours of Monday. Police Public Relations Officer, CSP Nafiu Abubakar, on Monday, verified the attack, revealing that the armed men breached the school’s perimeter before […]

The command's spokesperson, Nafiu Kotarkoshi, confirmed the attack in a statement on Monday, saying the terrorists wielded sophisticated weapons.

The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has described Monday’s attack on the Government Girls’ Comprehensive Secondary School in Maga, Danko Wasagu Local Government Area of Kebbi State, as a painful reminder of the worsening security situation in Nigeria under the administration of President Bola Tinubu. The ADC said the Kebbi incident is not an isolated event […]

Terrorists in the early hours of Monday attacked the Maga Comprehensive Girls’ Secondary School in Sakaba Local Government Area of Kebbi State. Naija News understands that the gunmen abducted an unspecified number of female students and killed a staff member. The assailants were said to have stormed the school at about 5:52 am, shooting sporadically […]

Gunmen attacked a girls school in Maga, Kebbi State, abducted twenty five students and fled as security forces later launched a major search and rescue operation.

Police in Nigeria say gunmen have abducted 25 girls from a high school in the country's northwestern Kebbi state.

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria - Gunmen attacked a government girls' boarding school in Nigeria's Kebbi State early on Monday, killing the vice principal and abducting 25 female students, police said, in the latest mass kidnapping in the country's northwest. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

The Kebbi State Police Command said it has deployed tactical unit personnel to rescue 25 abducted Government Girls Comprehensive Secondary School, Maga,

Minister of State for Defence, Bello Matawalle, has condemned in strong terms the late-night attack by bandits on Government Girls Comprehensive Senior Secondary School (GGCSS), Maga, in the Zuru Emirate of Kebbi State. The attack, which occurred in Danko/Wasagu Local Government Area, led to the killing of the school’s Vice Principal, Malam Hassan Yakubu Makuku, […]

Minister of State for Defence, Dr Bello Matawalle, has condemned the attack on Government Girls Comprehensive Senior Secondary School, GGCSS, Maga, in

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has condemned the terrorist attack on Government Girls Comprehensive Senior Secondary School (GGCSS), Maga, in Danko Wasagu Local Government Area of Kebbi State. The PDP faction, in a statement on Monday by its National Publicity Secretary, Ini Ememobong, also lamented the killing of the school’s Vice Principal, Hassan Yakubu Makuku, […]

At least 25 students have been abducted from the Government Girls Comprehensive Secondary School in Nigeria's Maga town, Kebbi State, following an overnight attack by gunmen.

The Federal Government condemns Kebbi schoolgirls abduction and orders an immediate rescue mission as Tinubu directs security agencies to bring victims home safely.

Armed gangs known locally as bandits have attacked a school in Kebbi state, shooting the principal, killing the vice principal, and abducting female students.

Panic has engulfed the Zuru Emirate in Kebbi State after armed bandits attacked Government Girls Comprehensive Senior Secondary School, GGCSS, Maga in

Atiku Abubakar, ex-vice president, condemned the abduction of 25 girls at the Government Girls Comprehensive Secondary School in Maga, in Kebbi state.

But beyond the immediate tragedy, the Maga school attack fits into a widening pattern of coordinated bandit incursions spreading across the North-west.