Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) has said over 600 teachers were killed by suspected Boko Haram terrorists in  the Northeast.

NUT’s National President Michael Olukoya spoke in Ado Ekiti yesterday at the celebration of this year’s World Teachers’ Day. He called on federal and state governments to tighten security in schools to prevent further attacks.

Olukoya said 19,000 teachers were among Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in the Northeast ravaged by insurgency.

In a speech delivered on his behalf by a senior NUT official, Samson Akinlade, Olukoya urged the Federal Government to rescue the Chibok schoolgirls abducted by the insurgents since April 2014.

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