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Lagos (Nigeria), March 2 (EFE / EPA) .- (Camera: Stringer) The 279 students kidnapped at dawn last Friday in a public school for girls in the state of Zamfara, in northwestern Nigeria, were released on Tuesday, according to the governor of the region, Beautiful Muhammad Matawalle.FOOTAGE OF THE STUDENTS.
Hundreds of girls wearing hijabs, gathered at Zamfara state government premises as all 279 students kidnapped from their boarding school in northern Nigeria have been released. IMAGES
Released Saturday after more than three years of captivity by the jihadist group Boko Haram, the 82 Nigerian high school girls from Chibok meet with the Minister of Health in Abuja. IMAGES
Jihadist group Boko Haram has freed 21 of more than 200 girls it kidnapped in April 2014 in the northern Nigerian town of Chibok, the government said on Thursday.
First Lady Michelle Obama honored all mothers on Mother’s Day and offered her thoughts about the unconscionable terrorist kidnapping of more than 200 Nigerian girls.
A day after their release, dozens of Nigerian schoolchildren kidnapped by gunmen earlier this month, arrive at the Kaduna State Government House ahead of a meeting with the governor of the northwestern state, Uba Sani. The mass abduction in Kuriga, Kaduna state on March 7 was one of the biggest attacks on a school in years and sparked a national outcry over insecurity. IMAGES