An Adviser for Nigeria’s President says all 137 school students abducted earlier this month have been freed. Previous media reports had put the number of children taken at 287. Gunmen attacked their school in the northern state of Kaduna on March 7- kidnapping victims as young as four. Abdul Aziz Abdul Aziz is a Special Assistant to the Nigerian president. He says no ransom was paid for their release. Subscribe to our channel http://bit.ly/AJSubscribe Follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/AJEnglish Find us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera Check our website: https://www.aljazeera.com/ Check out our Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/aljazeeraenglish/ Download AJE Mobile App: https://aje.io/AJEMobile #Nigeria #Kaduna #Kuriga #Bandits #BokoHaram #kidnapping #bringbackourpupils #bringbackourgirls #NigeriaAbductions
A warning – This report contains distressing images from the start. Authorities in Nigeria have recovered the remains of at least 80 people near a cattle market in the southern state of Abia. They say the bodies belong to hostages taken by criminal gangs. Al Jazeera’s Nicolas Haque reports. Subscribe to our channel http://bit.ly/AJSubscribe Follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/AJEnglish Find us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera Check our website: https://www.aljazeera.com/ Check out our Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/aljazeeraenglish/ Download AJE Mobile App: https://aje.io/AJEMobile #Nigeria #Abia #AbiaState #AbiaCattleMarket #AbiaGovernor #AlexOttis #AbiaPolice
Why are officials in Nigeria unable to protect schoolchildren from mass kidnappings? Kidnappers in Nigeria are increasingly targeting schools and abducting hundreds of students for ransom. #AJStartHere explains #Al_Jazeera_English #Start_Here #Al_Jazeera_Digital_Shows Let’s talk about the kidnappings. Children in Nigeria are being abducted from schools — often hundreds of boys and girls at a time. They’re taken for ransom. Some of them make it home. But many haven’t. So who’s behind the kidnappings? Why are they still happening? And why have the people in charge failed to stop them? It’s hard to get an exact number but around 700 people have been abducted in Nigeria so far this year — most […]
0 Nigerian police has launched a rescue mission after gunmen stormed a secondary school and kidnapped a number of children. The attack took place in President Muhammadu Buhari’s home state, and police and the military were still working to determine how many were kidnapped and missing. Just two days before the school abduction a village elder along with 20 others was kidnapped in the same state. Al Jazeera’s Barbara Angopa reports. – Subscribe to our channel: http://aje.io/AJSubscribe – Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AJEnglish – Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera – Check our website: https://www.aljazeera.com/ #Nigeria #BringBackOurBoys #KatsinaStudents
