🔗 Share this article Twenty-four Nigerian-born Schoolgirls Liberated After Eight Days Post Capture A total of two dozen Nigerian young women captured from a learning facility more than seven days back were liberated, government officials announced. Gunmen invaded an educational institution located in Kebbi State last month, taking the life of an employee and seizing 25 students. The nation's leader Bola Tinubu praised law enforcement regarding their "swift response" following the event - although precise conditions regarding their liberation were not specified. Africa's most populous nation has suffered a spate of captures in recent years - amounting to two hundred fifty youths captured at a Catholic school recently yet to be located. Via official communication, a special adviser within the government confirmed that every student abducted from the school located in the area were now safe, noting that the incident caused imitation captures across further local territories. National leadership announced that extra staff will be assigned towards high-risk zones to avert further incidents of kidnapping". Via additional communication through social media, the president wrote: "Military aviation will continue constant observation across distant regions, aligning missions together with infantry to properly detect, isolate, disrupt, and counteract all hostile elements." More than numerous youths got captured from Nigerian schools since 2014, when multiple young women got captured in the well-known large-scale kidnapping. Days ago, a minimum of numerous pupils and workers were taken from St Mary's School, a Catholic boarding school, situated in Niger state. Fifty of those taken from the school were able to flee as reported by religious organizations - however no fewer than two hundred fifty are still missing. The primary religious leader in the region has stated that the administration is making "insufficient measures" to save the unaccounted individuals. The abduction within educational premises was the third impacting the country within seven days, forcing the administration to cancel travel plans global meeting held in the African country at the weekend to manage the crisis. UN education envoy the diplomat called on world leaders to make maximum effort" to assist initiatives to bring back the abducted children. The envoy, previous head of government, stated: "The duty falls upon us to guarantee that Nigerian schools remain secure environments for studying, instead of locations where youths could be removed from learning environments for illegal gain."