{"id":79134,"date":"2025-11-21T14:59:02","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T14:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=79134"},"modified":"2025-11-21T14:59:02","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T14:59:02","slug":"atiku-condemns-niger-school-abductions-urges-state-of-emergency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/11\/21\/atiku-condemns-niger-school-abductions-urges-state-of-emergency\/","title":{"rendered":"Atiku Condemns Niger School Abductions, Urges State of Emergency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Sarah Sam Adda<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has condemned the abduction of students and staff from St. Mary\u2019s Catholic School in Papiri, Agwara LGA, Niger State, calling the incident \u201ctruly heartbreaking\u201d and urging the Federal Government to declare a state of emergency on insecurity.<\/p>\n<p>Atiku questioned on X how many more lives would be \u201cshattered\u201d before decisive action is taken, stressing the urgency of confronting rising insecurity.<\/p>\n<p>The attack occurred early Friday when armed men invaded the school, abducting an unconfirmed number of students and staff.<\/p>\n<p>Security forces have been deployed for rescue operations. The school had reportedly reopened despite a prior closure directive.<\/p>\n<p>The Catholic Diocese of Kontagora and the Niger State Government called for swift action to secure the victims.<\/p>\n<p>The incident follows the recent abduction of 25 students in Kebbi State, raising fears over growing attacks on schools in northern Nigeria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sarah Sam Adda Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has condemned the abduction of students and staff from St. Mary\u2019s Catholic School in Papiri, Agwara LGA, Niger State, calling the incident \u201ctruly heartbreaking\u201d and urging the Federal Government to declare a state of emergency on insecurity. Atiku questioned on X how many more lives would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":79135,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[183,1724,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-insecurity","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79134","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=79134"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79136,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79134\/revisions\/79136"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}