Twenty-Four Nigerian Schoolgirls Freed After Week-Long Abduction in Kebbi State
A group of 24 Nigerian schoolgirls abducted from their boarding school over a week ago has been released, President Bola Tinubu confirmed. The girls were taken by armed assailants who stormed the Government Girls Comprehensive Senior Secondary School (GGCSS) in Kebbi State on 17 November, killing one staff member and abducting 25 students—one of whom escaped shortly after the attack.
President Tinubu praised security forces for their “swift response,” though the circumstances surrounding the girls’ release remain unclear. He also announced the deployment of additional personnel to vulnerable areas and directed the Air Force to maintain continuous surveillance, coordinating with ground units to “identify, isolate, disrupt, and neutralise all hostile elements.”
The incident comes amid a troubling surge in school abductions across Nigeria. More than 1,500 children have been kidnapped from schools since the 2014 Chibok abduction, including at least 250 students still missing from a Catholic boarding school in Niger State last week.
The spate of attacks forced President Tinubu to cancel his planned trip to the G20 summit in South Africa to manage the crisis. UN education envoy Gordon Brown urged the global community to support efforts to secure abducted children and stressed the importance of protecting Nigerian schools as safe spaces for learning.
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