By Sam Jones, Op-ed contributor Saturday, November 29, 2025A student pulls her suitcase as she walks out of the Federal Government Girls College in Bwari, on the outskirts of Abuja, on Nov. 22, 2025. The national education ministry has ordered 47 boarding secondary schools across the country be shut after gunmen have kidnapped more than 300 students and teachers in one of the largest mass kidnappings in Nigeria, a Christian group said on Nov. 22, as security fears mounted in Africa’s most populous nation. The early Nov. 21 raid on St Mary’s co-education school in Niger state in western Nigeria came after gunmen on Nov. 17 stormed a secondary school in neighboring Kebbi state, abducting 25 girls. | John OKUNYOMIH / AFP via Getty Images
In the middle of the night, while most families slept peacefully, darkness came for a school in Kebbi State, Nigeria. Armed men crashed into the Hassan family’s home at 3:30 a.m., killing a husband and dragging terrified girls into the bush. Twenty-five daughters — each with dreams, innocence, and God-given worth — were stolen in moments.
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