🔗 Share this article Instructor Fatally Shot and 25 Female Students Kidnapped in Gunbattle at Nigerian School Educational institutions in northern Nigeria have become frequent targets for militant organizations Armed assailants have taken the life of an instructor and kidnapped no fewer than 25 pupils in an attack on a female high school in north-western Nigeria, police reports indicate. The gang of attackers stormed the Government Girls Comprehensive Secondary School in the Maga locality within Kebbi State at approximately 04:00 local time on the start of the week, officials stated. The assailants "engaged police personnel on duty in a shootout" before breaching the school's outer barrier and abducting the learners from their dormitory, according to a statement. A school employee was killed while trying to protect the students. Another staff member suffered bullet injuries and is now being treated medically. Observers recounted a sizeable number of assailants, identified in the area as outlaw groups, who came shooting randomly to generate terror. Community members disclosed to media that the attackers afterwards forced a contingent of young women into surrounding rural areas. The police said they had deployed "additional police tactical units, together with army members and local protection units" to the area. A systematic finding and recovery effort is presently taking place in adjacent wooded areas and suspected escape routes. In the past few years, learning centers in northern Nigerian regions have become frequent targets for weapon-carrying factions, who often carry out abductions to request monetary settlements or gain negotiating power with authorities. The assault in Kebbi State underscores the continuing safety emergency plaguing the region, resulting in households in Maga in a state of fearful exhaustion as they anticipate and pray for their children's secure homecoming. Protection challenge in northern Nigeria has worsened considerably in the past few months, with learning centers experiencing the greatest impact of the violence. Essential Information Armed attackers attacked a school for young women in the northwestern part of Nigeria An instructor was fatally shot while defending pupils A minimum of 25 young women were kidnapped from their dormitory Security forces have begun a saving effort in surrounding areas School attacks have escalated in regularity in northern Nigeria