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•To be presented to president today Udora Orizu, Adedayo Akinwale, Kingsley Nwezeh in Abuja and Francis Sardauna in Katsina After nearly a week in captivity, freedom yesterday finally came the way of 344 schoolboys of Government Science Secondary School (GSSS), Kankara in Katsina State, who were abducted by bandits that raided their school last Friday. The Katsina State Government confirmed their release, saying they are being returned to the state from Zamfara where they were kept in captivity. Their release thrilled President Muhammadu Buhari who commended the state government and the mil...

344 schoolboys abducted by Boko Haram rescued by security forces The boys were kidnapped from the Government Science Secondary School in north-western Nigeria on Friday night TOPSHOT - Released students gather at the Government House with other students from the Government Science Secondary school, in Kankara, in northwestern Katsina State, Nigeria upon their release on December 18, 2020. - More than 300 Nigerian schoolboys were released on Thursday after being abducted in an attack claimed by Boko Haram, officials said, although it was unclear if any more remained with their captors (Photo ...

BBC News Published media captionAbdulhadi Abubaka describes how he managed to the mass kidnapping in Nigeria's Katsina school. Hundreds of schoolboys kidnapped last week from a boarding school in north-western Nigeria have been released, local authorities have told the BBC. A spokesman for the governor of Katsina state said 344 had been freed and were all in a good condition. However, other reports suggest some remain in the hands of their captors. The attack was claimed by the Islamist militant group Boko Haram, which hours earlier released a video apparently showing some of the boys. In h...

2020-12-17 22:05:57 GMT2020-12-18 06:05:57(Beijing Time) Xinhua English ABUJA, Dec. 17 (Xinhua) -- Scores of students kidnapped from a public secondary school in Nigeria's northwestern state of Katsina have regained their freedom, multiple government officials confirmed Thursday night. The boys were freed Thursday night in the town of Tsafe, about 82 km from Kankara town where they were kidnapped at the Government Science Secondary School (GSSS) on Dec. 11, Ibrahim Katsina, a special adviser to the Katsina government, told Xinhua. Also speaking to Xinhua, Abdul Labaran, spokesman for t...

Nigerian schoolboys ‘freed after Boko Haram abduction’ April Roach © Provided by Evening Standard Hundreds of schoolboys who were kidnapped from Nigeria by Boko Haram have been released, it has been reported. More than 330 children were missing from the Government Science Secondary School in Kankara after gunmen with assault rifles attacked their school on Friday night. Nigeria’s Boko Haram jihadist rebels had claimed responsibility for the attack. A spokesman for the governor of Katsina state, where the boys were kidnapped, told BBC News the 344 pupils had been freed ...