Summary
Naija Feminists Media condemns the abduction of 25 schoolgirls in Kebbi State and calls on the Nigerian government for swift action to ensure their safe return. The organisation emphasised that girls lives and education must not be treated as disposable in a country where insecurity is deeply gendered.
November 20, 2025
We at Naija Feminists Media strongly condemn the insecurity in Nigeria, which has resulted in a group of terrorists abducting 25 schoolgirls from Maga Comprehensive Girls Secondary School in Kebbi State.
This is happening eleven years after the world demanded Bring Back Our Girls for the Chibok students, girls who were never fully returned home. Eleven years later, girls are still being taken, still being disappeared, still being punished for existing in a country that refuses to value their lives. This violence is not random. It is gendered. Terrorists are using girls because they know they can use them for their domestic and sexual needs, in a country where girls remain the most vulnerable population.
When girls cannot go to school without fear of abduction, there is no gender equality. When families have to choose between educating their daughters and keeping them alive, the country is failing. Every abduction pulls Nigeria further away from a future where girls can learn, dream, and live without violence hanging over their heads. The Nigerian government has deployed security agencies to bring the girls home, but deployment is only the beginning. Rescue efforts must be swift, coordinated, and effective this time, not another slow, confused, reactive process that leaves families waiting for years. Nigeria cannot afford another tragedy where girls vanish into the hands of terrorists and the country simply moves on.
We demand a public, time-bound rescue plan from the Federal Government and the Kebbi State Government, accountability from security agencies whose failure to protect schools has become a recurring feature of Nigeria’s insecurity crisis, and a national feminist-centred security response that treats attacks on girls as political violence.
Girls are not war spoils. Girls are not bargaining tools. Girls are not disposable because they come from rural communities.
In solidarity,
Naija Feminists Media
