Two dozen Nigerian-born Young Scholars Released More Than Seven Days Following Kidnapping
A total of two dozen Nigerian-born young women who were abducted from the boarding school over a week ago are now free, government officials announced.
Armed assailants stormed an educational institution in Nigeria's Kebbi State last month, killing one staff member and seizing multiple pupils.
Head of state the president praised security forces for their "swift response" post-occurrence - while precise conditions of the girls' release remained unclear.
The continent's largest country has experienced multiple incidents of kidnappings over the past few years - including over 250 children captured at a Catholic school days ago remaining unaccounted for.
In a statement, a special adviser to the president confirmed that all the girls abducted from learning institution within the region were now safe, noting that the incident sparked similar abductions within additional Nigerian states.
Tinubu announced that more personnel are being positioned to "vulnerable areas to prevent additional occurrences involving abductions".
In a separate post through social media, government leadership commented: "Aerial forces will continue ongoing monitoring over the most remote areas, aligning missions alongside land forces to effectively identify, contain, disrupt, and eliminate all hostile elements."
Exceeding fifteen hundred students got captured from educational institutions in recent years, during which two hundred seventy-six students were taken hostage amid the well-known large-scale kidnapping.
Recently, a minimum of 300 children and staff got captured at a learning facility, faith-based academy, located within local province.
Several dozen people taken from learning institution have since escaped as reported by the Christian Association - but at least two hundred fifty are still missing.
The primary religious leader in the region has mentioned that national authorities is undertaking "little substantial action" to rescue those still missing.
The abduction at the institution was the third affecting the nation within seven days, compelling national leadership to postpone travel plans global meeting held in South Africa recently to manage the situation.
UN education envoy Gordon Brown called on world leaders to try everything possible" to assist initiatives to return captured students.
The representative, a former UK prime minister, said: "The duty falls upon us to make certain educational institutions provide protected areas for learning, rather than places in which students could be removed from learning environments through unlawful means."