🔗 Share this article 24 Nigerian Female Students Freed More Than Seven Days Post Capture A total of 24 West African female students captured from their boarding school more than seven days back have been released, government officials stated. Attackers invaded an educational institution in Nigeria's local province on 17 November, fatally wounding a worker and abducting 25 students. Head of state the president praised military personnel for their "immediate reaction" to the incident - despite the fact that specific details regarding their liberation were not specified. West Africa's dominant power has witnessed numerous cases of abductions over the past few years - including over two hundred fifty youths captured at a Catholic school recently remaining unaccounted for. Via official communication, a designated representative to the president confirmed that each young woman taken from educational facility within the region were now safe, stating that the incident triggered copycat kidnappings in two other local territories. The president announced that more personnel would be deployed in sensitive locations to stop more cases involving abductions". In a separate post using digital platforms, Tinubu wrote: "Military aviation will continue ongoing monitoring across distant regions, aligning missions with ground units to properly detect, contain, disturb, and eliminate all hostile elements." More than fifteen hundred students have been abducted from educational institutions in recent years, when 276 girls were abducted during the infamous large-scale kidnapping. On Friday, at least numerous pupils and workers were taken from an educational institution, religious educational establishment, in Nigeria's local province. Fifty of those abducted from learning institution were able to flee based on information from the Christian Association - but at least numerous individuals haven't been located. The main religious leader within the area has commented that national authorities is making "insufficient measures" to rescue those still missing. This kidnapping within educational premises represented the third occurrence affecting the nation over recent days, forcing national leadership to call off journey to the G20 summit held in South Africa at the weekend to address the emergency. United Nations representative Gordon Brown urged world leaders to try everything possible" to support efforts to bring back the abducted children. The representative, a former UK prime minister, commented: "The duty falls upon us to ensure that learning facilities are safe spaces for studying, not spaces where youths might get taken from educational settings through unlawful means."