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.
