Twenty-four Nigerian Schoolgirls Released More Than Seven Days Post Abduction
Approximately twenty-four Nigerian-born girls captured from the boarding school more than seven days back were liberated, the country's president confirmed.
Attackers invaded the Government Girls Comprehensive Senior Secondary School in Nigeria's northwestern region recently, fatally wounding a worker and abducting multiple pupils.
Nigerian President the president applauded military personnel for their "swift response" following the event - while the circumstances surrounding their freedom were not specified.
Africa's most populous nation has experienced a spate of captures in recent years - with more than 250 children taken from faith-based academy last Friday still missing.
In a statement, a special adviser of the administration verified that all the girls captured at learning institution within the region had returned safely, noting that this event sparked similar abductions in two other local territories.
National leadership said that more personnel are being positioned in sensitive locations to avert additional occurrences of kidnapping".
Via additional communication on X, government leadership wrote: "Aerial forces will continue continuous surveillance throughout isolated territories, synchronising operations alongside land forces to accurately locate, contain, interfere with, and eliminate any dangerous presence."
Exceeding numerous youths have been abducted from educational institutions over the past decade, during which 276 girls were abducted during the well-known large-scale kidnapping.
Recently, a minimum of 300 children and staff were abducted from an educational institution, a Catholic boarding school, situated in Niger state.
Several dozen people captured at the school have since escaped according to religious organizations - however no fewer than 250 remain unaccounted for.
The main church official in the region has commented that Nigeria's government is making "insufficient measures" to recover those still missing.
The abduction at the institution was the third impacting the country over recent days, pressuring President Bola Tinubu to call off travel plans to the G20 summit held in the southern nation days ago to manage the situation.
UN education envoy Gordon Brown urged global organizations to try everything possible" to support efforts to bring back captured students.
Brown, previous head of government, commented: "The duty falls upon us to ensure that learning facilities are safe spaces for learning, rather than places where youths might get taken from educational settings for criminal profit."
