Two dozen from Nigeria Schoolgirls Freed After Eight Days Post Kidnapping
A total of 24 West African female students captured from the educational institution more than seven days back were liberated, government officials confirmed.
Attackers raided the Government Girls Comprehensive Senior Secondary School in Nigeria's Kebbi State last month, taking the life of an employee and seizing two dozen plus one scholars.
Head of state Bola Tinubu praised law enforcement regarding their "immediate reaction" following the event - although specific details surrounding their freedom were not specified.
West Africa's dominant power has suffered a spate of kidnappings in recent years - amounting to two hundred fifty youths abducted from faith-based academy recently still missing.
Via official communication, a designated representative of the administration confirmed that all the girls captured at educational facility located in the area were now safe, noting that the occurrence triggered copycat kidnappings within additional local territories.
Tinubu announced that additional forces would be deployed in sensitive locations to stop additional occurrences involving abductions".
Through another message on X, Tinubu stated: "Aerial forces is to maintain ongoing monitoring throughout isolated territories, synchronising operations with ground units to accurately locate, isolate, disrupt, and eliminate all hostile elements."
More than fifteen hundred students have been abducted from educational institutions in recent years, when 276 girls got captured in the well-known Chibok mass abduction.
On Friday, at least numerous pupils and workers were taken from St Mary's School, a Catholic boarding school, in Nigeria's Niger state.
Several dozen people taken from educational facility have since escaped based on information from faith-based groups - but at least 250 remain unaccounted for.
The leading church official across the territory has mentioned that the administration is making "no meaningful effort" to save the unaccounted individuals.
The capture incident at the school marked the third instance to hit Nigeria in a week, forcing the administration to postpone travel plans international conference held in the southern nation days ago to address the crisis.
United Nations representative the diplomat called on world leaders to make maximum effort" to support efforts to return captured students.
The representative, previous head of government, commented: "We also have responsibility to ensure that Nigerian schools are safe spaces for education, instead of locations where youths might get taken from their classroom through unlawful means."