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Kuriga Kidnapping. On 7 March 2024, more than 200 Nigerian school students were abducted from their educational institution in the north-western town of Kuriga [ceb], Chikun Local Government Area, Kaduna State. The event occurred while the pupils were gathered on the assembly ground around 08:30 (07:30 GMT). A group of dozens of gunmen riding ...
The Zamfara kidnapping (or Jangebe kidnapping) was the abduction of 279 female students aged between 10 and 17 during a raid by armed bandits on 26 February 2021. The kidnapping occurred at the Government Girls Science Secondary School, a boarding school in Jangebe, in Zamfara State, Nigeria. [1][2][3] All hostages were released by the bandits ...
Kagara kidnapping. On 17 February 2021, a school pupil was killed and 27 others were abducted by armed men at around 3 am from their school in Kagara, Niger State, Nigeria. [1] Three members of the school staff and 12 of their relatives were also abducted. [1] No one has claimed responsibility for the attack. [2][3]
The abduction of the 287 children in Kaduna state, near the West African nation's capital, is one of the largest school kidnappings in the decade since the kidnapping of schoolgirls in Borno state ...
The 137 children were rescued in Zamfara state, an enclave known for kidnappings more than 124 miles away from their […] The post Some of nearly 300 abducted schoolchildren in Nigeria’s north ...
September 14, 2024 at 1:32 PM. By Ahmed Kingimi. LAGOS (Reuters) - Nigeria's army has rescued 13 hostages who were kidnapped in northwest Kaduna state, following a military operation prompted by a ...
Chibok schoolgirls kidnapping. On the night of 14–15 April 2014, 276 mostly Christian female students aged from 16 to 18 were kidnapped by the Islamic terrorist group called Boko Haram from the Government Girls Secondary School at the town of Chibok in Borno State, Nigeria. [2][3][4] Prior to the raid, the school had been closed for four ...
The kidnappings are a stark reminder of the security crisis plaguing Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country KURIGA, Nigeria (AP) — […] The post Gunmen kidnap nearly 300 students in ...