Approximately 24 Nigerian young women captured from a educational institution more than seven days back have been released, government officials announced.
Armed assailants invaded an educational institution situated within northwestern region recently, taking the life of an employee and seizing 25 students.
Nigerian President Bola Tinubu commended law enforcement regarding their "immediate reaction" to the incident - although specific details of the girls' release were not specified.
Africa's most populous nation has experienced numerous cases of abductions during current times - amounting to two hundred fifty youths captured at a Catholic school last Friday still missing.
In a statement, an appointed consultant within the government asserted that every student captured at learning institution in Kebbi State were now safe, mentioning that this event caused copycat kidnappings across further Nigerian states.
Tinubu said that additional forces would be deployed in sensitive locations to stop further incidents involving abductions".
In a separate post through social media, Tinubu stated: "Aerial forces will continue continuous surveillance across distant regions, aligning missions alongside land forces to properly detect, separate, disturb, and neutralise every threatening factor."
More than 1,500 children were taken hostage from Nigerian schools since 2014, during which multiple young women were abducted during the well-known major capture incident.
On Friday, at least numerous pupils and workers got captured at St Mary's School, a Catholic boarding school, in Nigeria's regional territory.
Half a hundred individuals captured at educational facility were able to flee according to religious organizations - however no fewer than numerous individuals haven't been located.
The leading Catholic cleric in the region has commented that the administration is performing "little substantial action" to save those still missing.
The capture incident within educational premises was the third impacting the country over recent days, pressuring national leadership to call off travel plans to the G20 summit taking place in the African country at the weekend to address the crisis.
United Nations representative the official called on world leaders to "do our utmost" to support efforts to return kidnapped youths.
Brown, ex-British leader, commented: "The duty falls upon us to make certain Nigerian schools remain secure environments for education, not spaces where youths could be removed from learning environments for criminal profit."
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