All 279 Kidnapped Nigerian Students Released After ‘Repentant Bandits’ Reach Out
All 279 women abducted from their boarding faculty in northern Nigeria were launched and are on executive premises, the native governor advised AFP on Tuesday. Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari expressed “overwhelming pleasure” over the discharge of the women from days of captivity, vowing more difficult motion in opposition to kidnappers. Nigeria has been rocked by way of 4 mass abductions of scholars in lower than 3 months, sparking common anger in opposition to the federal government and reminiscences of the 2014 kidnapping of masses of schoolgirls in Chibok, within the nation’s east, that stunned the sector. “I’m satisfied to announce that the women are unfastened,” Dr. Bello Matawalle, governor of Zamfara state, advised an AFP journalist early Tuesday. “They’ve simply arrived within the executive space and are in excellent well being.” An AFP reporter noticed masses of ladies dressed in hijabs, accrued on the executive premises. Government to begin with […]