According to news published by Vanguard on Tuesday, 18th of November, 2025, armed bandits stormed Government Girls Comprehensive Secondary School, killed two men who tried to protect the place, and marched away with 25 young schoolgirls. The widows of the victims have now opened up about those terrible moments, their voices shaking as they remember.
The security guard’s wife, who asked not to be named, said she woke up around 4 a.m. to strange sounds at the window. “I thought goats had come inside the house,” she told reporters, tears rolling down her face. She woke her husband. When he stepped out, the armed men were already there, dressed in army clothes and speaking Fulani.
“When we saw them, we began to pray the Islamic way,” she said. “We were begging Allah. Then they just shot my husband straight in the chest.” Blood poured out, and she rushed to hold him, but the bandits threatened to kill her too if she didn’t move back. Their daughter came running out. The gunmen grabbed her and dragged her toward the girls’ hostel. They made the students lie face down, warning they’d shoot anyone hiding. The girl begged to go and relieve herself. When the bandits looked away, she ran into the bush and hid until morning.
Not far away, in the vice principal’s quarters, Malama Amina Hassan faced the same nightmare. The bandits kicked the door open and ordered her husband, Mallam Hassan Yakubu Makuku, to say his last prayers. “He was praying when they shot him at close range,” she recalled quietly. “He died right there in front of us.” She recognised their Fulani language and military camouflage.
After the killings, the attackers headed to Adamu Aliero Hostel, picked girls at random, and vanished into the forest. Police later confirmed 25 students were taken.
Governor Nasir Idris cut short his trip and visited the school with the Chief of Army Staff, Major General Waidi Shuaibu. “Take me by my words, your children will be rescued very soon,” the governor promised crying parents. Troops, police, and local hunters are now combing the bushes.
No ransom call has come yet, but families wait in agony. “My husband died protecting those girls,” one widow said. “Now we just want them back safe.” In the north, these attacks keep happening, leaving communities scared and angry. People are asking when it will stop. View, More,
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