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Chaos and jubilation as freed Nigerian schoolboys reunite with family By Afolabi Sotunde Freed Nigerian schoolboys walk after they were rescued by security forces in Katsina KATSINA, Nigeria (Reuters) – Parents sobbed, mobbed their children in hugs and even kissed the ground in gratitude on Friday as they reunited with scores of schoolboys who had been kidnapped a week earlier in northwest Nigeria. Hundreds of adults jostled to find their offspring among the 344 dusty and dazed looking children who had arrived by bus in Katsina state on Friday morning. Those who succeeded cheere...

Chaos and jubilation as freed Nigerian schoolboys reunite with family Reuters 12/18/2020 By Afolabi Sotunde By Afolabi Sotunde KATSINA, Nigeria (Reuters) - Parents sobbed, mobbed their children in hugs and even kissed the ground in gratitude on Friday as they reunited with scores of schoolboys who had been kidnapped a week earlier in northwest Nigeria. © Reuters/AFOLABI SOTUNDE Freed Nigerian schoolboys walk after they were rescued by security forces in Katsina Hundreds of adults jostled to find their offspring among the 344 dusty and dazed looking children who had arri...

Boys escaped through forest after gunmen abducted their friends at Nigeria school By Ismail Abba and Afolabi Sotunde Muhammed Abubakar, a 15-year-old boy who escaped from men who kidnapped hundreds of students from his school, looks on in Kankara KANKARA, Nigeria (Reuters) – Usama Aminu was one of the lucky ones. He managed to escape when gunmen abducted more than 300 pupils from his school in northwestern Nigeria. “When I decided to run they brought a knife to slaughter me but I ran away quickly,” he said, sitting on a mat and speaking softly as he described how he had been...