Overview
- Kogi State officials said Monday that gunmen raided the Dahallukitab Group of Schools in Lokoja and abducted 23 pupils.
- Authorities reported that security teams rescued 15 children, and eight remain missing as searches continue in surrounding areas.
- Police in Kogi are leading a coordinated operation with other security agencies to find the remaining victims and arrest the attackers.
- The facility was operating without registration in a remote, bushy location, and officials also said the proprietor’s wife was taken.
- No group has claimed responsibility, a sign of the wider kidnap-for-ransom crisis that has increasingly targeted schools in Nigeria since 2024, where ‘pupil’ typically refers to primary school children.