🔗 Share this article Twenty-four Nigerian-born Female Students Liberated After Eight Days Following Abduction Approximately 24 Nigerian-born female students taken hostage from their learning facility over a week ago are now free, national leadership stated. Attackers stormed the Government Girls Comprehensive Senior Secondary School situated within local province last month, taking the life of an employee and abducting 25 students. Head of state government leadership applauded law enforcement regarding their "swift response" following the event - despite the fact that specific details of the girls' release were not specified. West Africa's dominant power has experienced multiple incidents of abductions in recent years - with more than two hundred fifty youths abducted from a Catholic school last Friday yet to be located. Through an announcement, an appointed consultant to the president verified that all the girls abducted from the school located in the area had been accounted for, stating that this event sparked similar abductions in two other local territories. The president said that extra staff will be assigned to "vulnerable areas to avert additional occurrences related to captures". Through another message through social media, Tinubu stated: "Military aviation is to maintain constant observation across distant regions, aligning missions with ground units to effectively identify, isolate, interfere with, and counteract any dangerous presence." Over numerous youths were taken hostage from educational institutions over the past decade, when 276 girls were abducted during the infamous large-scale kidnapping. On Friday, a minimum of numerous pupils and workers were taken from an educational institution, a Catholic boarding school, situated in Niger state. Several dozen people captured at learning institution were able to flee based on information from religious organizations - however no fewer than two hundred fifty are still missing. The leading religious leader across the territory has stated that national authorities is performing "little substantial action" to recover captured persons. The capture incident at the institution marked the third instance to hit Nigeria over recent days, compelling President Bola Tinubu to cancel journey international conference organized within South Africa days ago to address the crisis. UN education envoy Gordon Brown requested global organizations to make maximum effort" to help measures to return kidnapped youths. Brown, ex-British leader, stated: "The duty falls upon us to guarantee that learning facilities remain secure environments for learning, instead of locations where youths could be removed from educational settings through unlawful means."