{"id":10373,"date":"2020-09-14T11:06:27","date_gmt":"2020-09-14T11:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ndarason.com\/?p=10373"},"modified":"2022-11-15T10:53:16","modified_gmt":"2022-11-15T09:53:16","slug":"education-in-ne-nigeria-in-trouble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ndarason.com\/en\/education-in-ne-nigeria-in-trouble\/","title":{"rendered":"611 teachers killed, 910 schools destroyed in Nigeria &#8211; UN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United Nations has decried attacks on schools and communities in some parts of Nigeria, emphasizing that from 2009 to 2018, a total of 611 teachers were killed and 910 schools destroyed.<\/p>\n<p>United Nation Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator, Edward Kallon, said this in a statement released on Wednesday in Abuja in commemoration of the World International Day to Protect Education from Attacks.<\/p>\n<p>He said over 1,500 schools were forced to close and 4.2 million children in the north-east were at the risk of missing out on an education, adding that three million children in Borno, Adamawa and Yobe States were in need of education emergency support.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Kallon then urged the federal and state governments in Nigeria to ensure safety protocols were in place before school resumption to stem the spread of COVID-19 in schools in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, United Nation Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres said the United Nation condemned all attacks on education, including abductions of school children, school-related gender-based violence, herders-farmers clashes, and repurposing of schools for use as isolation centres, IDP camps, and markets or for military purposes, which he described as very unfortunate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United Nations has decried attacks on schools and communities in some parts of Nigeria, emphasizing that from 2009 to 2018, a total of 611 teachers were killed and 910 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":10380,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ndarason.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10373"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ndarason.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ndarason.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ndarason.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ndarason.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10373"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ndarason.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27004,"href":"https:\/\/ndarason.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10373\/revisions\/27004"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ndarason.com\/en\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ndarason.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ndarason.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ndarason.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}