A group of 24 Nigerian young women who were abducted from a boarding school more than seven days back are now free, the country's president stated.
Armed assailants raided the Government Girls Comprehensive Senior Secondary School situated within local province on 17 November, killing one staff member and seizing two dozen plus one scholars.
Head of state Bola Tinubu applauded law enforcement regarding their "immediate reaction" to the incident - while the circumstances of the girls' release remained unclear.
Africa's most populous nation has experienced multiple incidents of captures over the past few years - with more than two hundred fifty youths taken from faith-based academy days ago yet to be located.
Via official communication, a special adviser within the government verified that every student taken from the school in Kebbi State had been accounted for, noting that this event triggered similar abductions within additional Nigerian states.
The president announced that more personnel will be assigned towards high-risk zones to stop further incidents involving abductions".
Via additional communication through social media, Tinubu wrote: "The Air Force will continue ongoing monitoring across distant regions, synchronising operations together with infantry to properly detect, contain, interfere with, and counteract any dangerous presence."
Exceeding fifteen hundred students were taken hostage from Nigerian schools since 2014, when multiple young women were abducted during the notorious major capture incident.
Recently, at least 300 children and staff got captured at St Mary's School, faith-based academy, located within local province.
Half a hundred individuals abducted from educational facility have since escaped according to faith-based groups - yet approximately 250 remain unaccounted for.
The leading church official in the region has stated that national authorities is undertaking "insufficient measures" to rescue captured persons.
This kidnapping at the institution marked the third instance affecting the nation within seven days, pressuring the administration to call off his trip global meeting held in South Africa at the weekend to address the crisis.
International education official Gordon Brown called on global organizations to make maximum effort" to support efforts to return the abducted children.
The representative, ex-British leader, commented: "It's also incumbent on us to ensure that educational institutions remain secure environments for education, not spaces in which students can be plucked from learning environments for criminal profit."