Overview
- Police say gunmen struck at about 4:00 a.m. at Government Girls' Comprehensive Secondary School in Maga, in Kebbi state's Danko-Wasagu area.
- Vice Principal Hassan Yakubu Makuku was shot dead during the attack and another staff member was injured after an exchange of fire with guards.
- The assailants were described as carrying sophisticated weapons, and security forces with local vigilantes are conducting search-and-rescue operations in nearby forests and on suspected escape routes.
- Authorities have not identified the perpetrators or a motive, and some local accounts reported the attackers may have fled toward neighboring Zamfara state.
- The incident follows years of mass student abductions across northern Nigeria, with at least 1,500 students kidnapped since the 2014 Chibok attack.