The U.S. Embassy has issued a warning to Americans in Nigeria regarding potential terrorist threats targeting U.S. facilities, including schools and personnel. In a security advisory, the embassy urged citizens to adopt precautionary measures, such as varying travel routes and schedules when visiting diplomatic sites.

The advisory is linked to

The UK Home Office has announced that the government will stop issuing study visas to nationals from Afghanistan, Cameroon, Myanmar and Sudan. It will also end skilled work visas for Afghans, citing widespread visa abuse.

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood said the move followed a sharp rise in asylum claims from people who had initially entered the UK legally on study visas. The Home Office said the number of asylum

President John Mahama has ordered a "full-scale" investigation into claims that officials are soliciting bribes from foreign scholarship recipients. The probe follows a radio panel discussion where the former CEO of National Entrepreneurship and Innovation Programme,  Kofi Ofosu Nkansah, highlighted the alleged misconduct.

In its directive, the Presidency said it considers the matter a "grave public concern,"  and has directed the National Investigation Bureau to

Authorities at the Ministry of Education have confirmed that hundreds of pupils are yet to be enrolled for the new academic year due to a shortage of classrooms across the country, promising to remedy the situation as quickly as possible.

This comes amid mounting frustration from parents, particularly in densely populated regions where children have remained at home three weeks into the academic year. The

Nigerian authorities have said that they have secured the release of the remaining 130 schoolchildren and staff abducted from St Mary's Catholic boarding school in Papiri, Niger state, bringing to an end one of the country's worst mass kidnappings.

More than 250 people were taken during the 21 November attack, with about 100 children released earlier this month and 50 reported to have escaped at the time,

The government has announced that the 47 unity schools closed in November after a wave of school abductions had reopened. Academic activities fully resume following strengthened security measures around the affected campuses.

In a statement, the Ministry of Education said the closures had followed mass abductions in Kebbi and Niger

President Peter Mutharika has announced the cancellation of almost all school-related fees to fulfil a key campaign promise he made during September's presidential election. In a statement, the president said, "no public school should be requesting learners to make contributions towards the School Development Fund and any other fees, except boarding fees".

The move is expected to increase enrollment

Foundational learning, the ability to read, write, and do basic math, remains a major challenge across Africa, with only one in ten children achieving minimum literacy and numeracy by the end of primary school.

Manos Antoninis, the Director of UNESCO's Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report, described the situation as a deep learning crisis, with fewer than 14% of pupils reaching basic proficiency levels

Fifty of the more than 300 students and 12 teachers kidnapped by gunmen from a Catholic school in Niger State have escaped and have been reunited with their parents. A major military-led search and rescue operation is underway for the remaining students and staff who are still with the kidnappers.

The attack came after gunmen attacked a secondary school in neighbouring Kebbi state,

Authorities in northern Niger State have reported the "distressing" abduction of a number of students and staff from a school in the state. A senior official of the state government said the abduction occurred following an attack in the area, despite earlier intelligence pointing to an "elevated threat level across parts of Niger North Senatorial District".

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