Lagos ¨C Two dozen Nigerian girls who were kidnapped from their boarding school last week in the country¡¯s northwest have been released, the presidency announced Tuesday.
Nigeria has suffered a string of abductions of schoolchildren since Islamist group Boko Haram kidnapped 276 girls in Chibok in the restive northeast in 2014, sparking an international outcry.
¡°President Bola Tinubu has welcomed the release today of the 24 schoolgirls abducted by terrorists in Maga,¡± Kebbi State, on Nov. 17, said a statement from Bayo Onanuga, special adviser to the Nigerian president.
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