24 Nigerian-born Schoolgirls Freed Over a Week Following Kidnapping

Approximately two dozen Nigerian-born female students taken hostage from a boarding school over a week ago were liberated, the country's president confirmed.

Attackers invaded the Government Girls Comprehensive Senior Secondary School located in Kebbi State recently, taking the life of an employee and abducting multiple pupils.

Head of state Bola Tinubu commended military personnel for their "immediate reaction" following the event - despite the fact that the circumstances surrounding their freedom had not been clarified.

The continent's largest country has witnessed a spate of captures in recent years - including over 250 children taken from faith-based academy days ago remaining unaccounted for.

In a statement, an appointed consultant of the administration confirmed that all the girls taken from educational facility within the region were now safe, noting that the incident triggered imitation captures across further local territories.

Tinubu stated that extra staff are being positioned towards high-risk zones to avert more cases of kidnapping".

Through another message through social media, Tinubu wrote: "Military aviation is to maintain constant observation throughout isolated territories, aligning missions together with infantry to accurately locate, contain, interfere with, and eliminate any dangerous presence."

More than numerous youths have been abducted from Nigerian schools in recent years, back when two hundred seventy-six students were abducted during the infamous large-scale kidnapping.

Days ago, at least three hundred students and employees were abducted from St Mary's School, a Catholic boarding school, situated in Niger state.

Half a hundred individuals taken from the school managed to get away based on information from religious organizations - but at least two hundred fifty are still missing.

The primary religious leader across the territory has commented that national authorities is performing "insufficient measures" to rescue those still missing.

The abduction at the institution was the third impacting the country over recent days, compelling the administration to call off his trip international conference organized within the African country recently to deal with the crisis.

International education official Gordon Brown urged world leaders to "do our utmost" to help measures to return the abducted children.

Brown, previous head of government, said: "It's also incumbent on us to ensure that learning facilities are safe spaces for studying, not spaces where children can be plucked from their classroom through unlawful means."