Nearly 300 children and staff who were kidnapped by gunmen from a school in northern Nigeria earlier this month have been freed unharmed, according to the governor’s office in Kaduna, just days before a N1 billion ransom deadline. The kidnapping of 287 students on March 7 in Kuriga, a
According to officials, around 280 Nigerian schoolchildren have been abducted in the northwestern town of Kuriga. According to one witness, the students were on the assembly grounds at 8:30 a.m. when dozens of shooters on motorbikes drove through the school. The students, aged 8 to 15 were hauled away, along with a teacher, they stated. […]