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24 Nigerian girls freed after school kidnapping

A signboard for St Mary’s Private Catholic Secondary School stands at the entrance of the school in Papiri, Agwarra local government, Niger state, on November 23, 2025. [IFEANYI IMMANUEL BAKWENYE / AFP]

Two dozen Nigerian girls who were kidnapped from their boarding school last week in the country's northwest have been released, the presidency announced Tuesday.

Nigeria has suffered a string of abductions of schoolchildren since Islamist group Boko Haram kidnapped 276 girls in Chibok in the restive northeast in 2014, sparking an international outcry.

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