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Nigerian Government Secures Release of 100 Kidnapped Schoolchildren, Channels TV Says

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Nigerian President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, center, arrives at Beijing Capital International Airport in Beijing, Sept. 1, 2024. Greg Baker/Pool Photo via AP12/7/2025|Updated: 12/7/2025ABUJA, Dec 7—Nigeria’s government has secured the release of 100 schoolchildren who were abducted last month in Niger state in one of the country’s worst mass kidnappings to date, local broadcaster Channels Television reported on Sunday.The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has said 303 children and 12 school staff were kidnapped on November 21 by gunmen at St. Mary’s Catholic boarding school in Papiri, a hamlet in Niger state.Author’s Selected Articles

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