The Federal Government has approved the transfer of 3,000 students from various Unity Schools in Adamawa, Borno and Yobe states to other states following the persistent threat to lives in schools in the North Eastern part of the country.

Minister of Women Affairs and Social Development, Hajia Zainab Maina, who made this known yesterday at a programme to mark the 2014 Universal Day of the African Child also appealed to the Boko Haram sect to allow peace reign in the country as there can’t be development without peace.

She, however, urged Nigerian children not to be deterred but continue to face their studies as government is doubling her efforts to ensure that school environments are secured and safe.

According to her, since children are the greatest assets of any nation and the foundation on which the future of nations are built, the Federal Government will not rest on its oars until schools are safe in the country.

Maina stated further that: “While government is putting on strategies through development of various policies and programmes to accelerate the change, the unfortunate and regrettable incidents where our innocent school children were either being abducted or massacred are highly regrettable.”

•Source: Newswatch Times. Photo shows Hajia Zainab Maina.