Kidnapped Nigeria Students

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  Over 250 Nigerian School Students Released A Month After Being Kidnapped

  The more than 250 school students seized by gunmen in a mass kidnapping in northwestern Nigeria earlier this month have been released, the local governor said on Sunday.

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  Gunmen Kidnap More Than 280 Students From Nigerian School During Raid

  Gunmen have kidnapped more than 280 pupils during a raid on a school in northwest Nigeria, a teacher and a resident said, in one of the country's largest mass abductions.

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  24 Female Students Among Dozens Kidnapped By Gunmen At Nigerian University

  Gunmen have kidnapped more than 30 people, including at least 24 female students, in a raid in and around a university in northwest Nigeria's Zamfara state, residents said Saturday.

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  Gunmen Kidnap 4 Staff Members, Their Children From University Of Abuja In Nigeria

  Gunmen kidnapped four members of staff and their children from the University of Abuja on Tuesday, the university said, in a rare kidnapping at such a large institution in the Nigerian capital.

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  Weak And Tattered, 29 Students Freed By Kidnappers In Nigeria's Kaduna

  Kidnappers have released the remaining 29 students they were holding captive on Wednesday, nearly two months after abducting them from a forestry college in Nigeria's Kaduna state.

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  All 279 Kidnapped Nigerian Students Released: Governor

  All 279 Nigerian students kidnapped from their boarding school in the northern state of Zamfara have been released and are on government premises, the governor of the state told AFP Tuesday.

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  Nigeria Gunmen Kidnap More Than 300 Schoolgirls: Police

  More than 300 schoolgirls were abducted by gunmen in northwest Nigeria on Friday in the country's latest mass kidnapping, and a rescue bid was under way, regional police said.

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  Gunmen Kidnap More Than 40 From School In Central Nigeria

  Gunmen believed to members of a criminal gang attacked a school in central Nigeria, killing one student and kidnapping dozens of other pupils, teachers and relatives, a government official said Wednesday.

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  1 Student Shot Dead, Hundreds Kidnapped By Gunmen In Nigeria: Report

  Gunmen believed to belong to a criminal gang have kidnapped hundreds of schoolboys from their hostels along with some of their teachers in central Nigeria, an official and a security source told AFP Wednesday.

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  Boko Haram Releases Video Claiming To Show Kidnapped Nigerian Students

  The Boko Haram jihadist group released a video on Thursday claiming to show schoolboys who had been kidnapped in northwest Nigeria.

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  Parents Pray For Hundreds Of Students Kidnapped In Nigeria's Katsina

  Parents converged on a secondary school in Nigeria's northwestern Katsina state on Sunday, begging authorities to save hundreds of boys abducted by gunmen.

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  Boko Haram Returns 76 Out Of 110 Abducted Nigerian Schoolgirls

  Boko Haram Islamists who kidnapped 110 schoolgirls in Dapchi, northeast Nigeria, just over a month ago have returned 76 of the students to the town, the government said on Wednesday.

• Hundreds Protest in Ghana for Nigerian Girls

  Hundreds of women here on Sunday staged a peaceful protest against the kidnapping of the over 200 students from a school in Nigeria by extremist Islamic militant group Boko Haram.

• 24 more abducted Nigerian students free, 85 still missing

  24 more Nigerian schoolgirls abducted by Islamic extremists have escaped and 85 still are missing, an education official said on Friday.

• More than 100 kidnapped students set free in Nigeria

  Scores of female students kidnapped by Islamic militants from a northeastern Nigerian school are free, Nigeria's military reported on Wednesday.