The incident played out at the Government Secondary School, Ikot Ewa, in the Akpabuyo Local Government Area of Cross River State, southern Nigeria.

The student, whose name has been withheld by authorities, was apprehended by soldiers acting on a tip-off, before she could cause any damage, Pulse has learnt.

Akpabuyo Council Chairman, Emmanuel Offiong-Bassey, told journalists on Thursday, February 18, 2021 that the suspect was about to shoot her target when she was disarmed.

“How she got the gun, I do not know. The information I have, which may not be very accurate, is that when she wanted to bring out the gun to shoot at her target, another teacher who was behind her quickly stopped her. I learnt she is still in the custody of the army," Offiong-Bassey said.

The council boss also advised parents to keep a close watch on the company their children keep, the kind of movies they watch and their daily activities.

The Police Deputy Police Public Relations Officer in Cross River, Igiri Ewa, confirmed the incident to Punch, but said the suspect is yet to be handed over to the police.

“Once we gain access to the matter, we will invite the press,” he said.

Reports say the girl had waltzed into school with a blonde hairdo. Her class teacher was having none of it, however, and asked her to go home and have the hair cut.

The girl would return with a pistol hours later, her teacher in her crosshairs.

The teenage student has confessed that she belongs to a cult group called “Sky Queens Confraternity” and that she's been having an affair with a "man friend" who gave her the locally made pistol.

She made the confession on Friday at the Police Command Headquarters, Diamond Hill Calabar when she was paraded alongside her man friend and 11 others, Vanguard reports.

Cross River Commissioner of police, Sikiru Akande, disclosed that they discovered from their Investigation that the girl was taking the locally made double barrel pistol to a blacksmith.

Akande also said that investigation is ongoing to unravel the mystery surrounding the ownership of the gun, adding that a suspect identified as Okon Effiong has been arrested and more details will be made known soon.

Okon Effiong told Vanguard that he has been intimate with the teenager since August of 2020 and that he has been supporting her family in so many ways.

"I am a married man with six children, I did not give her the gun, she took it herself where I kept it under the bed," he said.

“I started sleeping with her August last year, her mother knows me. I have been doing small something on her head, they know she is my wife."

The schoolgirl said she was taking the pistol to the blacksmith before it was confiscated by her school principal. "I am a member of Sky Queen Confraternity, I am just an ordinary member, I don’t hold any position in the group.

"I have known the owner of the gun who is my man-friend since last year, he sleeps with me and supports me with little things, but he is not the one paying my school fees.

“My mother knows about him because he visits me at our house and sometimes he sleeps over at my place because I have my own room... then in the morning he goes back to his own house,” she said.