Twenty-four from Nigeria Female Students Freed Over a Week Following Kidnapping
A group of 24 West African young women who were abducted from the boarding school more than seven days back were liberated, national leadership confirmed.
Gunmen raided the Government Girls Comprehensive Senior Secondary School located in local province recently, taking the life of an employee while capturing two dozen plus one scholars.
The nation's leader government leadership praised security forces for their "immediate reaction" to the incident - although specific details regarding their liberation were not specified.
The continent's largest country has experienced multiple incidents of captures in recent years - amounting to two hundred fifty youths abducted from religious educational institution last Friday yet to be located.
In a statement, a designated representative within the government verified that each young woman abducted from learning institution within the region had been accounted for, mentioning that this event caused copycat kidnappings in two other local territories.
National leadership said that more personnel are being positioned to "vulnerable areas to avert more cases of kidnapping".
Through another message through social media, government leadership commented: "Military aviation will continue continuous surveillance across distant regions, coordinating activities alongside land forces to accurately locate, contain, disrupt, and neutralise any dangerous presence."
Over numerous youths were taken hostage from Nigerian schools over the past decade, when multiple young women were taken hostage amid the well-known large-scale kidnapping.
On Friday, at least 300 children and staff were taken from St Mary's School, religious educational establishment, in Nigeria's regional territory.
Several dozen people captured at learning institution managed to get away based on information from faith-based groups - but at least two hundred fifty are still missing.
The main religious leader within the area has mentioned that the administration is making "no meaningful effort" to recover those still missing.
The capture incident within educational premises marked the third instance to hit Nigeria in a week, forcing national leadership to postpone his trip international conference organized within the southern nation recently to deal with the crisis.
UN education envoy the official urged the international community to "do our utmost" to support efforts to return kidnapped youths.
Brown, previous head of government, stated: "We also have responsibility to guarantee that educational institutions remain secure environments for education, rather than places in which students might get taken from learning environments through unlawful means."