The Nigerian army on Sunday rescued students and staff who were abducted by gunmen from a school in the country’s north earlier this month, the military said, days before a deadline to pay a $927,000 Cdn ransom.
The kidnapping of 287 students on March 7 in Kuriga, a remote town in the northwestern state of Kaduna, was the first mass abduction in Africa’s most populous country since 2021 when more than 150 students were taken from a high school in Kaduna.
Military spokesperson Maj. Gen. Edward Buba said 137 hostages — 76 females and 61 males — were rescued in the early hours of Sunday in
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