{"id":97739,"date":"2023-10-16T10:51:28","date_gmt":"2023-10-16T09:51:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/insecurity-75-zamfara-schools-in-red-areas-remain-shut-as-others-resume"},"modified":"2023-10-16T13:34:51","modified_gmt":"2023-10-16T12:34:51","slug":"insecurity-75-zamfara-schools-in-red-areas-remain-shut-as-others-resume","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/insecurity-75-zamfara-schools-in-red-areas-remain-shut-as-others-resume","title":{"rendered":"Insecurity: 75 Zamfara schools in red areas remain shut as others resume"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Schools in Zamfara State have resumed for the 2023\u20132024 academic session as 75 schools in the red zone remained closed amid palpable fears of kidnappings and banditry.<\/p>\n<p>The resumption of both public and private schools in the State comes a few days after the abduction of female students of the Federal University, Gusau, and construction workers.<\/p>\n<p>The abduction of students in boarding and day schools in the State occasioned the closure of most schools.<\/p>\n<p>About 75 schools have not been reopened due to insecurity, especially in the rural communities.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Commissioner of Education, Wadatau Madawaki, the state government is collaborating with security agencies for a well-coordinated security network to protect students and staff in schools across the State.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA security task force has been constituted to assess the security situation in those troubled communities, to ascertain the improvement of security around the schools that are in the red zone so that the government can reopen the schools,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>DAILY POST learnt that some schools had implemented measures to ensure the security of their students and staff.<\/p>\n<p>According to Jamilu Hamisu, the principal of one of the private schools in Gusau, the State capital, the proprietors of private schools are battling the hard-biting economic and insecurity situation that has led to some parents withdrawing their children from schools.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome of them are removing their children from private schools to public schools as they can no longer afford the tuition fees, saying his school alone has lost 16 pupils,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>A parent, Ibrahim Mande, lamented the high cost of books and transportation of children to school, with no income increase.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Schools in Zamfara State have resumed for the 2023\u20132024 academic session as 75 schools in the red zone remained closed amid palpable fears of kidnappings and banditry. The resumption of both public and private schools in the State comes a few days after the abduction of female students of the Federal University, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":97738,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[1570,2140,363,254,150],"class_list":["post-97739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-insecurity","tag-nigeria","tag-zamfara"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Insecurity: 75 Zamfara schools in red areas remain shut as others resume - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Schools in Zamfara State have resumed for the 2023\u20132024 academic session as 75 schools in the red zone remained closed a ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/insecurity-75-zamfara-schools-in-red-areas-remain-shut-as-others-resume\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Insecurity: 75 Zamfara schools in red areas remain shut as others resume\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Schools in Zamfara State have resumed for the 2023\u20132024 academic session as 75 schools in the red zone remained closed a ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/insecurity-75-zamfara-schools-in-red-areas-remain-shut-as-others-resume\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-10-16T09:51:28+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-10-16T12:34:51+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2023\/10\/sm_1697443293.892374.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1440\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1080\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/insecurity-75-zamfara-schools-in-red-areas-remain-shut-as-others-resume#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/insecurity-75-zamfara-schools-in-red-areas-remain-shut-as-others-resume\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Insecurity: 75 Zamfara schools in red areas remain shut as others resume\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-10-16T09:51:28+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-10-16T12:34:51+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/insecurity-75-zamfara-schools-in-red-areas-remain-shut-as-others-resume\"},\"wordCount\":291,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/insecurity-75-zamfara-schools-in-red-areas-remain-shut-as-others-resume#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2023\/10\/sm_1697443293.892374.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"insecurity\",\"Nigeria\",\"Zamfara\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/insecurity-75-zamfara-schools-in-red-areas-remain-shut-as-others-resume#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/insecurity-75-zamfara-schools-in-red-areas-remain-shut-as-others-resume\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/insecurity-75-zamfara-schools-in-red-areas-remain-shut-as-others-resume\",\"name\":\"Insecurity: 75 Zamfara schools in red areas remain shut as others resume - Nigeria\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/insecurity-75-zamfara-schools-in-red-areas-remain-shut-as-others-resume#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/insecurity-75-zamfara-schools-in-red-areas-remain-shut-as-others-resume#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2023\/10\/sm_1697443293.892374.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-10-16T09:51:28+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-10-16T12:34:51+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"description\":\"Schools in Zamfara State have resumed for the 2023\u20132024 academic session as 75 schools in the red zone remained closed a ...\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/insecurity-75-zamfara-schools-in-red-areas-remain-shut-as-others-resume#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/insecurity-75-zamfara-schools-in-red-areas-remain-shut-as-others-resume\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/insecurity-75-zamfara-schools-in-red-areas-remain-shut-as-others-resume#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2023\/10\/sm_1697443293.892374.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2023\/10\/sm_1697443293.892374.jpg\",\"width\":1440,\"height\":1080,\"caption\":\"Insecurity: 75 Zamfara schools in red areas remain shut as others resume\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/insecurity-75-zamfara-schools-in-red-areas-remain-shut-as-others-resume#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Insecurity: 75 Zamfara schools in red areas remain shut as others resume\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/\",\"name\":\"Africa Press | Nigeria | Homepage\",\"description\":\"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\",\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/author\/cfeditoren\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Insecurity: 75 Zamfara schools in red areas remain shut as others resume - Nigeria","description":"Schools in Zamfara State have resumed for the 2023\u20132024 academic session as 75 schools in the red zone remained closed a ...","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/insecurity-75-zamfara-schools-in-red-areas-remain-shut-as-others-resume","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Insecurity: 75 Zamfara schools in red areas remain shut as others resume","og_description":"Schools in Zamfara State have resumed for the 2023\u20132024 academic session as 75 schools in the red zone remained closed a ...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/insecurity-75-zamfara-schools-in-red-areas-remain-shut-as-others-resume","og_site_name":"Nigeria","article_published_time":"2023-10-16T09:51:28+00:00","article_modified_time":"2023-10-16T12:34:51+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1440,"height":1080,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2023\/10\/sm_1697443293.892374.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"cfeditoren","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"cfeditoren","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/insecurity-75-zamfara-schools-in-red-areas-remain-shut-as-others-resume#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/insecurity-75-zamfara-schools-in-red-areas-remain-shut-as-others-resume"},"author":{"name":"cfeditoren","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"headline":"Insecurity: 75 Zamfara schools in red areas remain shut as others resume","datePublished":"2023-10-16T09:51:28+00:00","dateModified":"2023-10-16T12:34:51+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/insecurity-75-zamfara-schools-in-red-areas-remain-shut-as-others-resume"},"wordCount":291,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/insecurity-75-zamfara-schools-in-red-areas-remain-shut-as-others-resume#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2023\/10\/sm_1697443293.892374.jpg","keywords":["Africa Press","Africa Press-Nigeria","insecurity","Nigeria","Zamfara"],"articleSection":["all news","Policy"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/insecurity-75-zamfara-schools-in-red-areas-remain-shut-as-others-resume#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/insecurity-75-zamfara-schools-in-red-areas-remain-shut-as-others-resume","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/insecurity-75-zamfara-schools-in-red-areas-remain-shut-as-others-resume","name":"Insecurity: 75 Zamfara schools in red areas remain shut as others resume - Nigeria","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/insecurity-75-zamfara-schools-in-red-areas-remain-shut-as-others-resume#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/insecurity-75-zamfara-schools-in-red-areas-remain-shut-as-others-resume#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2023\/10\/sm_1697443293.892374.jpg","datePublished":"2023-10-16T09:51:28+00:00","dateModified":"2023-10-16T12:34:51+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"description":"Schools in Zamfara State have resumed for the 2023\u20132024 academic session as 75 schools in the red zone remained closed a ...","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/insecurity-75-zamfara-schools-in-red-areas-remain-shut-as-others-resume#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/insecurity-75-zamfara-schools-in-red-areas-remain-shut-as-others-resume"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/insecurity-75-zamfara-schools-in-red-areas-remain-shut-as-others-resume#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2023\/10\/sm_1697443293.892374.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2023\/10\/sm_1697443293.892374.jpg","width":1440,"height":1080,"caption":"Insecurity: 75 Zamfara schools in red areas remain shut as others resume"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/insecurity-75-zamfara-schools-in-red-areas-remain-shut-as-others-resume#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Insecurity: 75 Zamfara schools in red areas remain shut as others resume"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/","name":"Africa Press | Nigeria | Homepage","description":"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb","name":"cfeditoren","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/author\/cfeditoren"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}