Nigeria, Sept. 11 -- Over 1,000 students have been abducted from Nigerian schools this year, Save the Children International, a non-governmental organisation (NGO), has observed.

The group said increasing cases of attacks on schools between 2020 and 2021 have led to many schools being shut, thereby putting the education system of the country at "extreme risk."

"From January to August, 2021, over 1000 children were abducted in Nigeria, with so many of them still in the hands of their abductors.

PREMIUM TIMES reported many cases of attacks by gunmen on schools in Kaduna, Katsina, Kebbi, Zamfara and Niger states, during which hundreds of students were abducted for ransom.

Mercy Gichuhi, Country Director, Save the Children International N...