Nigeria Boko Haram: Three million kids out of school

     Written by : SMTV24x7 | Fri, Sep 29, 2017, 10:51 PM

Nigeria Boko Haram: Three million kids out of school

More than 57% of schools in Borno state have been closed due to Boko Haram’s ongoing insurgency in northern Nigeria. About 3 million children are left without education as the school year begins.

“Children in northeast Nigeria are living through so much horror,” said Justin Forsyth, UNICEF’s Deputy Executive Director at the end of a three-day visit to Maiduguri, the epicentre of the crisis in the northeast.

“In addition to devastating malnutrition, violence and an outbreak of cholera, the attacks on schools is in danger of creating a lost generation of children, threatening their and the country’s future.”

Banki town has been reduced to rubble with 40,000 refugees is still on high alert with soldiers everywhere.