Overview
- Police reported that armed assailants raided the Government Girls Comprehensive Secondary School in Maga before dawn Monday and seized 25 students.
- Vice Principal Hassan Yakubu Makuku was shot dead while resisting the attackers, and a security guard was injured, according to local accounts.
- The attackers, described as carrying rifles and using coordinated tactics, targeted the boarding school while students were on campus overnight.
- Witnesses said the gunmen fled toward neighboring Zamfara state after the abductions, and security forces had not issued an immediate public update.
- No group has claimed responsibility, and the incident reflects recurrent ransom-driven school kidnappings in northwest Nigeria.