{"id":90262,"date":"2026-06-04T08:30:32","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T08:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=90262"},"modified":"2026-06-04T08:30:32","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T08:30:32","slug":"nigeria-over-600-pupils-teachers-abducted-despite-n145bn-safe-school-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/06\/04\/nigeria-over-600-pupils-teachers-abducted-despite-n145bn-safe-school-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Over 600 pupils, teachers abducted despite N145bn safe-school scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> < 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><div id=\"attachment_56919\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-56919\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-56919\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/nigeria-kidnapping-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/nigeria-kidnapping-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/nigeria-kidnapping-360x240.jpg 360w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/nigeria-kidnapping.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-56919\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Parents and relatives of students from the Federal College of Forestry Mechanization in Kaduna who have been abducted, hold placards during a demonstration in Abuja on May 4, 2021 to demand the release of their families who has spent 55 days in captivity. \u2013 Gunmen raided a college in northwestern Nigeria and kidnapped at least 30 students, government officials and parents said on March 12, 2021, in the latest mass abduction targeting a school. (Photo by Kola Sulaimon \/ AFP) (Photo by KOLA SULAIMON\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>No fewer than 603 students and teachers have been kidnapped in seven mass abductions across schools in Nigeria between March 2024 and May 2026 under President Bola Tinubu, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-xl\/africa\/nigeria\/over-600-pupils-teachers-abducted-despite-n145bn-safe-school-scheme\/ar-AA24MwVw?ocid=BingNewsSerp\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>No fewer than 603 students and teachers have been kidnapped in seven mass abductions across schools in Nigeria between March 2024 and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":82099,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Kidnapped-girls-released.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90262"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90263,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90262\/revisions\/90263"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}