Schools shut after massacre in Nigeria

By EducationHQ News Team
Published July 8, 2013

LAGOS, July 7 - Nigeria's northeastern Yobe state has ordered the closure of all secondary schools after a massacre in which suspected ...

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Schools shut after massacre in Nigeria

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