Bandits are kidnapping masses of students and teachers with impunity in Nigeria’s wild northwestern states, prompting calls for the temporary closure of schools. Students heading into class on March 15 at 9:00 a.m. at an elementary school in Rama village in Birnin Gwari, 40 miles west of Kaduna City, were confronted by bandits on motorcycles who abducted three of their teachers and drove off to their forest refuge nearby, according to media reports. Just a day earlier, an abduction at the Government Science Secondary School at Ikara, in Kaduna state, was thwarted by security guards who responded promptly to distress calls from students, according to the Stefanos Foundation, a Christian NGO. Yet, 39 students and faculty at the Federal College of Forestry Mechanization who were abducted the morning of March 12 have been less lucky. They were spending their seventh day of captivity under a forest canopy, according to a police commissioner who …
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