On the morning of Monday, November 17, 2025, the familiar alarm of mass abduction pierced the fragile calm of northwestern Nigeria: terrorist gunmen forced their way into the dormitories of Government Girls’ Comprehensive Secondary School in Maga, Kebbi State, killed the school’s vice-principal, Hassan Makuku and fled with 25 girls. The attack is the latest in more than a decade of school raids that have hollowed out whole communities and turned classrooms into ground zero for a national crisis.
Only days earlier, suspected bandits abducted six senior directors of the Federal Ministry of Defence on the Kabba–Lokoja highway, officials travelling for a promotion examination and demanded an outrageously large ransom for their release. The men and women tasked with safeguarding our nation became, in a single violent stroke, its most visible victims.
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