A group of 24 Nigerian girls who were abducted from their boarding school over a week ago have been released, the country's president said.
Armed assailants stormed the Government Girls Comprehensive Senior Secondary School (GGCSS) in Nigeria's Kebbi State on 17 November, killing one staff member and abducting 25 students. One was able to escape soon after.
Nigerian President Bola Tinubu praised security forces for their "swift response" to the incident - although the circumstances of the girls' release remained unclear.
Africa's most populous nation has suffered a spate of abductions in recent years - with more than 250 children abducted from a Catholic school last Friday still missing.
In a statement, a special adviser to the president confirmed that all the girls taken from the school in Kebbi State had been accounted for, noting that the incident triggered copycat kidnappings in two other Nigerian states.
