The Niger State government has begun investigating why the principal of St. Mary’s Catholic School, Agwara, flouted its security directive that, in view of security concerns, all boarding schools in the northern senatorial district of the state remain shut.
The probe was launched a few hours after gunmen stormed the school early Friday morning, kidnapping an unspecified number of the school’s pupils.
The attack on St. Mary’s Catholic School followed the pattern of a similar one earlier in the week on a Government school in Kebbi, despite security alerts by the Department of State Services (DSS) that there was a l
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