🔗 Share this article 24 Nigerian Schoolgirls Freed After Eight Days Post Kidnapping A total of 24 Nigerian-born female students captured from their educational institution over a week ago have been released, the country's president stated. Armed assailants raided the Government Girls Comprehensive Senior Secondary School in Nigeria's Kebbi State on 17 November, killing one staff member while capturing multiple pupils. The nation's leader the president praised military personnel regarding their "quick action" to the incident - despite the fact that specific details of the girls' release remained unclear. West Africa's dominant power has experienced numerous cases of abductions during current times - with more than numerous students abducted from a Catholic school days ago still missing. Via official communication, a special adviser to the president asserted that each young woman abducted from educational facility in Kebbi State had returned safely, stating that the occurrence triggered copycat kidnappings in two other regional provinces. The president announced that more personnel would be deployed towards high-risk zones to prevent further incidents related to captures". In a separate post through social media, government leadership wrote: "The Air Force must sustain ongoing monitoring over the most remote areas, synchronising operations with ground units to effectively identify, separate, interfere with, and eliminate any dangerous presence." Over fifteen hundred students got captured from Nigerian schools in recent years, back when multiple young women were taken hostage amid the infamous Chibok mass abduction. Recently, a minimum of 300 children and staff were taken from a learning facility, a Catholic boarding school, located within regional territory. Half a hundred individuals captured at educational facility have since escaped as reported by religious organizations - but at least two hundred fifty are still missing. The leading church official across the territory has stated that Nigeria's government is undertaking "little substantial action" to save those still missing. The capture incident within educational premises was the third impacting the country within seven days, pressuring national leadership to postpone his trip international conference organized within the southern nation days ago to manage the situation. UN education envoy the diplomat urged the international community to make maximum effort" to help measures to bring back captured students. Brown, previous head of government, said: "The duty falls upon us to ensure that educational institutions provide protected areas for learning, rather than places where youths can be plucked from their classroom for illegal gain."