24 Nigerian Schoolgirls Liberated Over a Week Post Kidnapping
A group of two dozen Nigerian female students taken hostage from the educational institution more than seven days back were liberated, government officials announced.
Armed assailants invaded the Government Girls Comprehensive Senior Secondary School located in Kebbi State on 17 November, taking the life of an employee while capturing 25 students.
Nigerian President the president applauded law enforcement for their "swift response" post-occurrence - although the circumstances regarding their liberation had not been clarified.
The continent's largest country has witnessed multiple incidents of kidnappings in recent years - amounting to two hundred fifty youths abducted from a Catholic school last Friday yet to be located.
Through an announcement, a special adviser within the government asserted that each young woman captured at learning institution within the region had returned safely, noting that the incident sparked imitation captures in two other local territories.
The president said that additional forces will be assigned to "vulnerable areas to prevent more cases of kidnapping".
Via additional communication through social media, Tinubu commented: "Military aviation will continue ongoing monitoring across distant regions, aligning missions with ground units to accurately locate, separate, disturb, and neutralise every threatening factor."
More than fifteen hundred students got captured from Nigerian schools since 2014, back when 276 girls got captured in the infamous major capture incident.
Days ago, at least three hundred students and employees got captured at St Mary's School, faith-based academy, located within regional territory.
Half a hundred individuals taken from educational facility have since escaped according to the Christian Association - however no fewer than two hundred fifty are still missing.
The primary Catholic cleric in the region has mentioned that Nigeria's government is making "little substantial action" to recover captured persons.
The abduction at the school marked the third instance to hit Nigeria over recent days, pressuring President Bola Tinubu to cancel journey international conference organized within South Africa days ago to deal with the situation.
UN education envoy Gordon Brown requested world leaders to make maximum effort" to help measures to bring back kidnapped youths.
Brown, a former UK prime minister, stated: "We also have responsibility to ensure that learning facilities remain secure environments for education, instead of locations in which students can be plucked from educational settings for illegal gain."