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12-11-2025, 01:18 PM
Nigeria’s government has rescued 100 schoolchildren who were abducted last month from St. Mary’s Catholic School in central Nigeria in one of the country’s biggest mass kidnappings to date, a Christian group said on Monday.
Nigerian authorities have yet to comment publicly on the rescue, and it was unclear whether the children were freed through negotiations with their captors - or payments to them - or in a security raid.
There have been a wave of school abductions since 2014, when Boko Haram militants kidnapped 276 girls from Chibok in the northeastern Borno state. Ransoms have often been arranged by the families of those kidnapped in previous cases, although officials in Nigeria rarely discuss such payments.
The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) spokesperson in Niger state, Daniel Atori, told Reuters the St. Mary’s Catholic School rescue had been confirmed by government officials earlier on Monday.
Nigerian authorities have yet to comment publicly on the rescue, and it was unclear whether the children were freed through negotiations with their captors - or payments to them - or in a security raid.
There have been a wave of school abductions since 2014, when Boko Haram militants kidnapped 276 girls from Chibok in the northeastern Borno state. Ransoms have often been arranged by the families of those kidnapped in previous cases, although officials in Nigeria rarely discuss such payments.
The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) spokesperson in Niger state, Daniel Atori, told Reuters the St. Mary’s Catholic School rescue had been confirmed by government officials earlier on Monday.
