{"id":79124,"date":"2025-11-21T11:25:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T11:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=79124"},"modified":"2025-11-21T11:25:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T11:25:11","slug":"niger-pupils-abduction-niger-govt-blames-school-for-reopening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/11\/21\/niger-pupils-abduction-niger-govt-blames-school-for-reopening\/","title":{"rendered":"Niger Pupils\u2019 Abduction: Niger Govt Blames School for Reopening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Niger State Government has condemned the abduction of pupils from St. Mary\u2019s School, Papiri, Agwara LGA, saying the school reopened without approval despite a security directive suspending all boarding activities in the area.<\/p>\n<p>Officials say the number of abducted pupils and staff remains unclear. Ahmed Abdullahi Rofia, Head of Disaster and Relief in the LGA, confirmed that terrorists raided the school between 2:00 a.m. and 3:00 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Secretary to the State Government, Abubakar Usman, said intelligence reports had earlier warned of rising threats in Niger North, prompting the government to halt construction work and shut all boarding schools in high-risk zones.<\/p>\n<p>He said St. Mary\u2019s ignored the order, exposing children and staff to danger.<\/p>\n<p>Security agencies have launched investigation and search-and-rescue operations.<\/p>\n<p>The government urged strict compliance with security directives and called on residents to support ongoing efforts with credible information.<\/p>\n<p>The attack comes amid renewed school-targeted kidnappings in northern Nigeria, including the abduction of 25 students in Kebbi State earlier in the week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata The Niger State Government has condemned the abduction of pupils from St. Mary\u2019s School, Papiri, Agwara LGA, saying the school reopened without approval despite a security directive suspending all boarding activities in the area. Officials say the number of abducted pupils and staff remains unclear. Ahmed Abdullahi Rofia, Head of Disaster [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":79125,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79124"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79126,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79124\/revisions\/79126"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}