Generation of children at risk – Amnesty International laments Sokoto school shutdown over insecurity 

Amnesty International Nigeria has condemned the closure of superior and secondary schools successful 20 of Sokoto State’s 23 section authorities areas pursuing escalating bandit attacks, informing that the improvement could permission an full procreation of children without entree to education.
In a connection issued connected Friday, the enactment said the worsening insecurity has placed acquisition nether superior menace crossed bluish Nigeria.

“Sokoto State Government had unopen down superior and secondary schools successful 20 retired of 23 section authorities areas of the authorities arsenic a effect of escalating attacks by bandits crossed the state. This means, a procreation of children are astatine the hazard of missing retired wholly connected education,” Amnesty International Nigeria said.

The rights radical stressed that schools indispensable stay harmless spaces for learning, saying, “Education is nether onslaught successful bluish Nigeria. Schools should beryllium places of safety, and nary kid should person to take betwixt their acquisition and their life.”

Amnesty International further noted that galore children person already mislaid entree to acquisition owed to repeated attacks and displacement, peculiarly successful Sabon Birni Local Government Area.

“Already galore children person had to aba...