3 h. 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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6 h. ago Nigeria school horror as gunmen kidnaps 215 children and 12 teachers in mass abduction

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6 h. ago Nigeria school horror as gunmen kidnap 215 children and 12 teachers in mass abduction

Nigeria has seen its second mass abduction in a week after 215 students and 12 teachers taken from St Mary's School in Agwara this morning (November 21), just days after 25 girls were taken

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6 h. ago Gunmen kidnap more than 200 school children as families terrified

Attackers seized 215 students as well as 12 teachers from St Mary's School in Agwara, Nigeria, in the latest in a spate of abductions in the country

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14 h. 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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19 h. ago Armed terrorists burst into Catholic school and abduct '52 kids'

An armed gang entered St Mary’s Papiri Private Catholic Secondary School, Papiri, in the state of Niger in Nigeria, and have reportedly kidnapped more than 50 students this morning

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62 h. ago Gunmen attack church in Nigeria sparking fresh Christian persecution fears days after 25 girls were kidnapped

The attack came hours after rapper Nicki Minaj publicly backed President Trump’s ‘persecution’ claims

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3 d. ago Nigeria school kidnapping: One student escapes as search for 24 others intensifies

Schoolgirls abducted from a boarding school in Nigeria escaped and is now home

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4 d. ago Nigeria sees 25 school girls snatched and staff member shot in horror mass kidnap

Armed attackers have stormed a secondary school in Nigeria and kidnapped 25 schoolgirls, police have said

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5 d. ago Nigeria's Christians beg Trump for help before they are wiped out as bodies pile up and villages disappear

Veteran activist Emeka Umeagbalasi describes a campaign of killings, kidnappings and church burnings, and reveals how Donald Trump can stop Nigeria becoming an Islamic state.

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