{"id":8879,"date":"2025-11-22T03:27:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T03:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/?p=8879"},"modified":"2025-11-22T03:28:34","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T03:28:34","slug":"just-in-227-abducted-from-niger-state-catholic-school-says-can-fg-has-ordered-closure-of-47-colleges-of-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/2025\/11\/22\/just-in-227-abducted-from-niger-state-catholic-school-says-can-fg-has-ordered-closure-of-47-colleges-of-education\/","title":{"rendered":"JUST IN: 227 abducted from Niger state Catholic school, says CAN  &#8230;.FG has ordered closure of 47 colleges of Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By George Mgbeleke <\/p>\n<p>The Niger state chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) says \u201c227 persons, including teachers and students\u201d were abducted when bandits attacked St. Mary\u2019s Catholic Primary and Secondary Schools in Papiri, Agwara LGA, on Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The incident reportedly occurred between 2am and 3am, and the exact number of abductees remained unknown.<\/p>\n<p>However, in a statement on Friday evening, Daniel Atori, the media aide to Daniel Okoh, the state\u2019s chairman of CAN, confirmed that \u201c215 pupils and students, including 12 teachers\u201d, were abducted during the attack.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile,the federal government has ordered the immediate closure of 47 of Nigeria\u2019s Unity Colleges.<\/p>\n<p>The directive, issued in a circular released on Friday, cites \u201crecent security challenges in some parts of the country and the need to prevent any security breaches.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The closure of the colleges, it said, was approved by Tunji Alausa, the minister of education.<\/p>\n<p>The circular was signed by Binta Abdulkadir, director of senior secondary education, for the minister.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By George Mgbeleke The Niger state chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) says \u201c227 persons, including teachers and students\u201d were abducted when bandits attacked St. Mary\u2019s Catholic Primary and Secondary Schools in Papiri, Agwara LGA, on Friday morning. The incident reportedly occurred between 2am and 3am, and the exact number of abductees remained [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3722,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8879"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8880,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8879\/revisions\/8880"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}