According to Nigerian broadcaster Channels Television, Jalige reported the gunmen stormed a college located in the Nigerian Kaduna State overnight into Friday and kidnapped some of the students. The number of abducted is yet to be established.
The country's security agencies were deployed to the site to ensure the safety of the remaining students, while the investigators are mulling a rescue operation, the spokesman added.
The kidnapping comes several days after Kaduna State Internal Security Samual Aruwan unveiled in a report that throughout 2020, more than 900 people were killed and nearly 2,000 were kidnapped across the state. The report shows a worrisome tendency of abductions of schoolgoers in Nigeria's northern and central regions.
Nigeria is regularly subjected to attacks, killings, and kidnappings, conducted either by bandits or jihadists for ransom or other purposes. Boko Haram - which means “Western education is forbidden” - the militant group linked to Daesh*, appears to have intensified its attacks and abductions of schoolchildren across the Western African nation over the past several months.
*Daesh (IS/ISIS/ISIL) is a terrorist organisation banned in Russia.
