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The United Nation's children's agency has reported that the Boko Haram insurgency has resulted in one million children being out of school.
Vanguard reports that this increases the risk that a lack of education will fuel further radicalism in and around Nigeria.
The UN report has shown that over 2,000 schools are closed across Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad and Niger, while hundreds of others have been attacked, looted, or set on fire by Boko Haram jihadists in their quest to create an independent Islamic state.
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“The longer they stay out of school, the greater the risks of being abused, abducted and recruited by armed groups,” said Manuel Fontaine, UNICEF regional director of West and Central Africa.
The Boko Haram group, so far, has target schools, students and teachers.
“It fulfils their initial mandate, which is to topple Nigeria’s secular government and the Western tenants which underpinned that governance structure,” said Ryan Cummings, security analyst at Red24, a risk consultancy firm.