Nigerian authorities have secured the release of the final 130 schoolchildren abducted from a Catholic boarding school in the country’s central Niger state, bringing a painful chapter to a close.
The federal government hailed the students’ return as a “moment of triumph and relief,” following one of Nigeria’s worst mass kidnappings.
More than 250 children and staff were taken from St. Mary’s Catholic School in Papiri on 21 November. Approximately 100 were released earlier this month.
In a statement confirming “the rescue of the remaining 130 children and staff,” authorities declared that “not a single pupil is left in captivity.”
By James Kisoo
