Gunmen from a criminal organization have kidnapped 25 students from a girls’ secondary school in northwestern Nigeria, police said on Monday (11/17/2025).
The attack comes more than a decade after the kidnapping of 276 girls in Chibok, in the troubled northeastern state of Borno, sparking a massive international mobilization under the slogan “#BringBackOurGirls.”
A police statement said that the attackers entered this school in Kebbi State at around 04:00 local time (03:00 GMT) with “sophisticated weapons” and “sporadic shooting.” The statement added that when police officers arrived, the suspects had “already jumped over the school fence and kidnapped 25 students from their residence.”
The school’s deputy principal was shot dead and a security guard was injured during the attack, according to a report prepared for the United Nations. Kebbi Police stated that a team consisting of its officers, military personnel and civilian militia members was deployed to the scene.
The team is “carefully combing the roads used by the bandits and the surrounding forest” in order to “rescue the kidnapped schoolgirls and try to arrest the perpetrators of this heinous act.”
This is the second mass kidnapping at Kibbie School in four years. In June 2021, bandits took more than 100 students and staff from a public school.
The students were released in groups over a period of two years, after their guardians paid the ransom. Some students were forced to marry and returned with their children.
Ct (AFP, EFI)
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