lagos an official of the nigeria union of teachers nut said seven schools in the northwestern state of kebbi had been shut down in the aftermath of an attack on a secondary school last weekisah arzika state chairman of the union in kebbi confirmed this in a statement on sunday saying those affected were schools located on the frontlines of the areas prone to attacks by suspected bandits reports xinhua news agencyhe said the government had directed all school principals to close school which was not safe adding that police and vigilantes had also been deployed to the schools for monitoring and protectiongovernment has given us an order and option to take any necessary action as far as our schools are concerned that we can close those schools which we think are not safe and prone to attacks in the areas close to the forest he saidhe said so far seven schools have been closed and such a move is a proactive measure to guard against a recurrence of the incident similar to that of federal government college at birnin yauri area on june 17a group of unidentified gunmen attacked the college in birnin yauri area of the state killing a police officer and abducted an unspecified number of students and at least three teachersa spokesman for the nigerian army said troops on june 18 rescued seven abductees from the school