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Nigerian military has announced the release of
one hundred and thirty seven school children out

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of the two hundred and eighty seven
students reportedly kidnapped by bandits on March seventh,

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twenty twenty four at Leo Primary and
Government Secondary School in Kurigal Community in

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Chicken Local Government Area of Cardinal State. It was gathered that the freed students

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were rescued by men of the Nigerian
military and local vigilantes in the early hours

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on Sunday in Zafara States. It
is yet to be as attended if an

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Uralsom was paid for the release of
the freed students. President Bolla and Leltenobo

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had vowed not to pay ransom for
the release of the school children, an

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action that was widely believed to be
done by his immediate predecessor, former President

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Muhammadu Buhari, despite he was a
military general. It would be recalled that

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unestimated two hundred and eighty seven students
where abducted wing bandits on motorcycles rode through

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their school, taking them away in
an incident that sparked outrage and condemnation from

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several quarters, including the New Egg
Children’s Welfare Agency unissive. A press statement

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issued and photographs of the free students
men available by the Director of Defense Media

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Operations, Major General Edward Boubat,
indicating that a total of one hundred and

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thirty seven students were rescued, contrary
to reports that two hundred and eighty seven

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children were adopted by bandits of March
seventh. According to the statement, the

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children were rescued in Zanfara State in
the early hours of Sunday through the joint

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efforts of the military and local authorities. The rescued hostages, according to the

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military, comprises of seventy six females
and sixty one girls, with the edges

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between eight and fifteen. The statement
said the rescued students will be handed over

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to the Carguna State government for further
action. It will be recalled that of

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the seventh of March twenty twenty four, troops received information that terrorists had invertedly

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a school Kuriga in Chicken local government
of Cardula State. During the incident,

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on confound number of coupils were adopted. Following the incident, the military committed

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to leaving lawn Stone or turned ontil. All the hostages were rescued accordingly.

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In the early hours of the twenty
fourth of March twenty twenty four, the

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military, working with local authorities and
government agencies across the country in a coordinated

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such and rescue operations, rescued the
hostages. The hostages are the same persons

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who were adopted from the school at
Kuriga in Chicken Local Governing Area of Cardula

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State. The rescued hostages totally in
one hundred and thirty seven comprised seventy six

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females and sixty one miles. They
were rescued in Zanfara State and would be

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converned and handed over to the Carduna
State government for further action, the military

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said in a statements and the release
of the Students Channel’s television in its reports,

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indicated that Nigeria has been hit by
a wave of mass kidnappings and many

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victims are still missing. Last weekend, kidnappers abdocted more than one hundred people

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in two attacks in Kadilla State.
On Saturday, the army said it had

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rescued sixteen pupils kidnapped just days after
the Kurigar attack from a school in Sokotou.

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Also in the Northwest. In the
early two thousands, kidnappers targeted all

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workers in the Niger Delta, but
hostage taking has since firaled into a national

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industry and has become a favored tactic
of branded guns and jihadists. Nigeria Risk

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consultancy SBM Intelligence said it had recorded
four thousand, seven hundred and seventy seven

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people abdoctor since tin who took office
in the last year. Some experts believe

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the country’s economic crisis is now driving
a run in kidnappings as tesperate Nigerians turned

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to crime for income. The mass
kidnapping in Karna State and another in the

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northeast came almost ten years after Boko
Haram militants triggered a huge international outcry in

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twenty fourteen by adopting more than two
hundred and fifty school girls from Chibok in

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the northeast. Boko Haram and its
rival group Islamic State West Africa Province is

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Swap still regularly carry out abductions in
the northeast, but with the rise of

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Heavenly Art gangs, the northwest has
also become severely affected by kidnappings. The

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gangs have targeted schools and colleges in
the past, but there had been a

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law in these attacks before the Kurigar
abduction. Meanwhile, the military spokesperson,

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also speaking as reported by News Agency
of Nigeria NAN said relatedly, it would

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be recalled that on March twenty first, troops equally rescued SA stained pupils are

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majories with a woman taking hostage in
Gathered Local Government area of Sokoto State.

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These hostages were handed over to the
Sokoto State Government. These efforts demonstrate the

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armed forces resolved to find other innocent
hostages and track down the terrorists that perpetrated

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these crimes. These efforts would continue
until other hostages are found and the terrorists

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arrested, tried and brought to justice
by Nigerian law. Troops are employing similar

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efforts to track down the culprits responsible
for the killing of eighteen soldiers in Okuama

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community in Delta States. Justice awaits
the culprits as they cannot go unpunished.

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