Gunmen have invaded a boys boarding secondary school in Kagara, Niger state
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Gunmen have invaded a boys boarding secondary school in the north-central town of Kagara in Niger state and abducted some students and staff, officials say.
The gunmen attacked the institution in the early hours of Wednesday according to BBC reports.
The official said a number of students had been abducted as well as four staff and their families. Some students fled during the attack. The actual number of those affected is yet to be ascertained.
It is not also clear who carried out the attack but kidnappings for ransom are rampant across Nigeria, with Niger state being among the worst affected.
The Nigerian Senate on Wednesday declared a state of emergency on insecurity following the kidnapping of school children at the Government Science School Kagara, Niger State.
The resolution followed a point of urgent national importance moved by Mohammed Musa, the senator representing Niger East.
In December more than 300 schoolboys were abducted in the town of Kankara in the northern state of Katsina. They were later released after negotiations with the gunmen.
Isaac Anyaogu is an Assistant editor and head of the energy and environment desk. He is an award-winning journalist who has written hundreds of reports on Nigeria’s oil and gas industry, energy and environmental policies, regulation and climate change impacts in Africa. He was part of a journalist team that investigated lead acid pollution by an Indian recycler in Nigeria and won the international prize - Fetisov Journalism award in 2020.
Mr Anyaogu joined BusinessDay in January 2016 as a multimedia content producer on the energy desk and rose to head the desk in October 2020 after several ground breaking stories and multiple award wining stories. His reporting covers start-ups, companies and markets, financing and regulatory policies in the power sector, oil and gas, renewable energy and environmental sectors
He has covered the Niger Delta crises, and corruption in NIgeria’s petroleum product imports.
He left the Audit and Consulting firm, OR&C Consultants in 2015 after three years to write for BusinessDay and his background working with financial statements, audit reports and tax consulting assignments significantly benefited his reporting.
Mr Anyaogu studied mass communications and Media Studies and has attended several training programmes in Ghana, South Africa and the United States
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