1 week ago Nigerian state secures release of 100 out of 265 kidnapped schoolchildren

Gunmen abducted 315 pupils and staff last month from St Mary’s school in Niger state as part of spate of kidnappingsNigerian authorities have secured the release of 100 kidnapped schoolchildren taken by gunmen from a Catholic school last month, a UN source and local media said on Sunday, though the fate of another 165 students and staff thought to remain in captivity remained unclear.In November 315 students and staff were kidnapped from St Mary’s co-educational boarding school in north-central Niger state, as the country buckled under a wave of mass abductions reminiscent of the infamous 2014 Boko Haram abduction of schoolgirls in Chibok. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Fifty pupils escape after mass kidnapping in Nigeria, bishop says

Christian Association of Nigeria says students reunited with parents but 253 children and 12 staff still with kidnappersFifty of the more than 300 students kidnapped from a Nigerian Catholic school last week have escaped, the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) said on Sunday.The pupils escaped between Friday and Saturday and have since been reunited with their parents, CAN’s chair, Bulus Yohanna, said in a statement. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago BREAKING: More than 300 students kidnapped in one of Nigeria's worst mass abductions

More than 300 students and 12 teachers are thought to have been kidnapped by gunmen from a Catholic school in central Nigeria following a surge of attacks by armed groups in the country

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3 w. ago More than 200 children and 12 teachers kidnapped from Catholic school in Nigeria

Three separate mass kidnappings have been highlighted in the west African country since Monday, leading President Bola Tinubu to cancel his trip to South Africa for the G20 summit this weekend

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3 w. ago Security deployed after more than 200 Catholic school children kidnapped in Nigeria

Three separate mass kidnappings have been highlighted in Nigeria this week, prompting President Bola Tinubu to cancel his trip to this weekend’s G20 summit in South Africa

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3 w. ago Nigeria reels after 215 children taken in second mass school abduction in a week

Twelve teachers also kidnapped from Catholic school amid threats from Trump to intervene over ‘Christian genocide’Unknown gunmen have abducted 215 schoolchildren and 12 teachers from a Catholic school in central Nigeria, the second mass abduction in the country in a week.The latest kidnapping, in Papiri community in Niger state, came against the backdrop of Donald Trump’s threat to intervene militarily to end a “Christian genocide”, which the Nigerian government has denied is happening. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Violence against Christians takes a terrifying turn as 100 children are kidnapped from Nigerian school by armed gangsters with Trump threatening invasion

Armed gangsters abducted the children from a school in Agwara, in central Nigeria - the second kidnapping incident in less than a week.

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