Presidential spokesperson says all those abducted from a Catholic school in Niger state last month are now free
Nigerian authorities say they have secured the release of a further 130 schoolchildren kidnapped from a Catholic school in November, after 100 were freed earlier this month.
“Another 130 abducted Niger state pupils released, none left in captivity,” presidential spokesperson Sunday Dare said on X, in a post accompanied by a photo of smiling children.
In late November, gunmen kidnapped hundreds of students and staff from St Mary’s co-educational boarding school in the country’s north-central Niger state.
Nigeria has recently seen a new wave of mass abductions, reminiscent of the kidnapping of schoolgirls in the town of Chibok by the militant group Boko Haram in 2014.
