Boko Haram Violence Forces More Than 1 Million Kids to Leave School

Violence in northeast Nigeria and neighboring countries targeted by Boko Haram has forced more than one million children out of school, leaving them prey to abuse, abduction and recruitment by armed groups, the United Nations said on Tuesday.

More than 2,000 schools in Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad and Niger remain closed due to the conflict and hundreds have been looted, damaged or destroyed, said the U.N. children's agency UNICEF.

While hundreds of schools in northeast Nigeria have reopened in recent months, insecurity and fear of violence are preventing many teachers from resuming classes and discouraging parents from sending their children back to school, according to UNICEF.

Osun Secondary School Students Arraigned For Attacking Teachers

The Osun state Police Command, Friday, arraigned no fewer than six suspected cultists from St. Marks Anglican High School and Adenle Middle School in Osogbo before an Oshogbo Magistrate Court.

The accused persons, according to reports, were arrested on 7th December for causing breach of peace by disturbing school activities of the school and attacking their teachers with cutlasses and clubs on the said date at St. Marks Anglican High School, Osogbo.