Two dozen Nigerian Young Scholars Liberated More Than Seven Days Following Kidnapping

A total of 24 West African female students captured from their boarding school more than seven days back are now free, the country's president confirmed.

Attackers raided the Government Girls Comprehensive Senior Secondary School in Nigeria's Kebbi State recently, fatally wounding a worker while capturing two dozen plus one scholars.

The nation's leader the president commended law enforcement regarding their "quick action" following the event - while specific details regarding their liberation had not been clarified.

The continent's largest country has suffered numerous cases of captures over the past few years - including over 250 children captured at religious educational institution recently remaining unaccounted for.

In a statement, a special adviser of the administration verified that every student abducted from educational facility located in the area were now safe, noting that the incident sparked similar abductions within additional local territories.

The president stated that additional forces would be deployed towards high-risk zones to prevent additional occurrences related to captures".

In a separate post through social media, Tinubu wrote: "The Air Force must sustain continuous surveillance throughout isolated territories, coordinating activities alongside land forces to properly detect, separate, disrupt, and neutralise every threatening factor."

More than 1,500 children have been abducted from Nigerian schools in recent years, during which two hundred seventy-six students got captured in the infamous Chibok mass abduction.

Days ago, at least three hundred students and employees got captured at St Mary's School, faith-based academy, situated in regional territory.

Half a hundred individuals taken from educational facility managed to get away based on information from religious organizations - but at least 250 remain unaccounted for.

The leading Catholic cleric in the region has mentioned that national authorities is undertaking "insufficient measures" to rescue those still missing.

The capture incident at the institution was the third to hit Nigeria within seven days, forcing national leadership to postpone his trip international conference organized within the southern nation at the weekend to deal with the crisis.

United Nations representative Gordon Brown requested world leaders to try everything possible" to support efforts to bring back captured students.

The representative, ex-British leader, commented: "It's also incumbent on us to make certain Nigerian schools remain secure environments for studying, instead of locations in which students can be plucked from their classroom for illegal gain."