{"id":3350,"date":"2025-11-25T21:11:53","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T21:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/?p=3350"},"modified":"2025-11-25T21:11:53","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T21:11:53","slug":"twenty-four-schoolgirls-released-after-northwestern-nigeria-kidnapping-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/?p=3350","title":{"rendered":"Twenty-four schoolgirls released after northwestern Nigeria kidnapping | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p class=\"article__subhead\"><em>President Tinubu urges intensified efforts to rescue other captives, after release of schoolgirls seized in Kebbi State.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"article-dates\">\n<p><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Published On 25 Nov 2025<\/span><span aria-hidden=\"true\">25 Nov 2025<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"rich-share\" data-testid=\"rich-share\">\n<div class=\"rich-share__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"rich-share__button-wrapper\"><button class=\"rich-share__button row\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><\/p>\n<p>Click here to share on social media<\/p>\n<p><svg class=\"icon icon--share2 icon--primary icon--16 \" viewbox=\"0 0 20 16\" version=\"1.1\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><title>share2<\/title><path fill=\"#000\" fill-rule=\"evenodd\" d=\"M11.688 9.048c-.659 0-1.252.282-1.673.733l-4.92-2.45c.016-.115.028-.232.028-.352 0-.117-.011-.23-.027-.343l4.913-2.423a2.285 2.285 0 0 0 1.68.739C12.964 4.952 14 3.899 14 2.6 14 1.302 12.965.25 11.688.25S9.377 1.302 9.377 2.601c0 .117.01.23.027.343L4.49 5.367a2.285 2.285 0 0 0-1.68-.739C1.536 4.628.5 5.681.5 6.979c0 1.299 1.035 2.35 2.312 2.35.659 0 1.252-.281 1.673-.731l4.92 2.45a2.357 2.357 0 0 0-.029.351c0 1.299 1.035 2.351 2.312 2.351S14 12.698 14 11.399s-1.035-2.35-2.312-2.35Z\" clip-rule=\"evenodd\"\/><\/svg><\/button><\/p>\n<p class=\"rich-share__social-text\">Share<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div aria-live=\"polite\" aria-atomic=\"true\">\n<p>Twenty-four girls who were abducted from a government boarding school in northwestern Nigeria last week have been released, the presidency announced.<\/p>\n<p>Nigerian President Bola Tinubu on Tuesday welcomed the girls\u2019 release and called on security forces to intensify efforts to free others still held captive.<\/p>\n<section class=\"more-on\">\n<h2 class=\"more-on__heading\">Recommended Stories<!-- --> <\/h2>\n<p><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">list of 4 items<\/span><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">end of list<\/span><\/section>\n<p>\u201cI am relieved that all the 24 girls have been accounted for. Now we must put, as a matter of urgency, more boots on the ground in the vulnerable areas to avert further incidents of kidnapping. My government will offer all the assistance needed to achieve this,\u201d Tinubu said.<\/p>\n<p>The girls were seized on November 17 when armed men stormed their school in Kebbi State shortly after a military detachment left the premises.<\/p>\n<p>Mass kidnappings for ransom have become common in northern Nigeria, where armed gangs target schools and rural communities, often overwhelming local security forces.<\/p>\n<p>In a separate incident on Tuesday, gunmen seized 10 women and children from a village in Nigeria\u2019s western Kwara State.<\/p>\n<p>State police commissioner Ojo Adekimi said the attackers, a group of \u201cherders\u201d, had \u201cshot sporadically\u201d during the raid on Monday night on the village of Isapa, which neighbours another village where 35 people were kidnapped just a week before.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"need-my-child-back\">\u2018Need my child back\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>In the largest mass abduction in recent memory, attackers raided a Catholic school on Friday in north-central Niger State and abducted more than 300 students and staff. Fifty students escaped over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Parents of children kidnapped said they were desperate for their release.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy son is a small boy. He doesn\u2019t even know how to talk,\u201d Michael Ibrahim told the AFP news agency. His son, who is four, suffers from asthma, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t know the condition in which the boy is,\u201d said Ibrahim, adding that the abduction had so sickened his wife that she had to be taken to hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the children abducted are nursery-school age.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI need my child back. I need my child back. If I had the power to bring my child back, I would do it,\u201d another father, Sunday Isaiku, told AFP.<\/p>\n<p>Four days after the St Mary\u2019s children were taken, no group has claimed the abduction or contacted the school demanding ransom.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Tinubu urges intensified efforts to rescue other captives, after release of schoolgirls seized in Kebbi State. Published On 25 Nov 202525 Nov 2025 Click here to share on social media share2 Share Twenty-four girls who were abducted from a government boarding school in northwestern Nigeria last week have been released, the presidency announced. 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