Remaining 130 Niger school children abducted n November in north-central Nigeria have been released,
President Bola Tinubu’s media aide Bayo Onanuga said in a post on X.
He wrote: “The remaining 130 schoolchildren abducted by terrorists…have now been released. They are expected to arrive in Minna on Monday and rejoin their parents for the Christmas celebration,”
“The freedom of the schoolchildren followed a military-intelligence driven operation.”
He said the total of freed students is now 230
Gunmen abducted 315 students and staff on November 21 from the St Mary Cathol in Papiri village.
It was not yet clear which group carried out the kidnappings or how Nigerian authorities secured the release of those abducted.
The Christian Association of Nigeria said. some of the school children, 100 of them were released on December 8 and 50 of the children managed to escape at the time of the attack,
United Nations source said on Sunday that all those taken appeared to have been released
