Twenty-four Nigerian-born Female Students Liberated Over a Week Post Kidnapping

Approximately two dozen Nigerian young women taken hostage from the boarding school more than seven days back were liberated, national leadership announced.

Attackers invaded a learning facility situated within Kebbi State last month, fatally wounding a worker and seizing 25 students.

Nigerian President the president commended law enforcement for their "quick action" following the event - although precise conditions of the girls' release had not been clarified.

The continent's largest country has witnessed a spate of captures over the past few years - including over numerous students abducted from a Catholic school last Friday remaining unaccounted for.

In a statement, a designated representative within the government verified that every student taken from the school located in the area had returned safely, stating that the incident sparked similar abductions across further regional provinces.

Tinubu said that more personnel are being positioned to "vulnerable areas to prevent further incidents of kidnapping".

Through another message using digital platforms, government leadership wrote: "Military aviation will continue continuous surveillance over the most remote areas, aligning missions together with infantry to properly detect, isolate, disturb, and counteract all hostile elements."

Exceeding 1,500 children have been abducted within learning facilities since 2014, back when 276 girls were taken hostage amid the infamous large-scale kidnapping.

On Friday, a minimum of numerous pupils and workers got captured at St Mary's School, a Catholic boarding school, in Nigeria's Niger state.

Half a hundred individuals abducted from the school were able to flee as reported by the Christian Association - but at least 250 remain unaccounted for.

The leading Catholic cleric within the area has stated that national authorities is undertaking "little substantial action" to save those still missing.

The capture incident within educational premises represented the third occurrence impacting the country over recent days, compelling national leadership to postpone his trip international conference held in the southern nation recently to manage the emergency.

International education official the diplomat requested the international community to try everything possible" to help measures to return kidnapped youths.

Brown, previous head of government, stated: "The duty falls upon us to guarantee that educational institutions provide protected areas for education, instead of locations where youths can be plucked from learning environments for criminal profit."