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Monday, December 8, 2025
Dozens of abducted Nigerian children handed over to state officials
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Nigerian school children who had been kidnapped by armed men arrive at the government headquarters in Minna, the capital of Niger State in central-northern Nigeria, December 8, 2025. (Light Oriye Tamunotonye/AFP)
Around 100 schoolchildren who had been kidnapped from a Catholic school in Nigeria last month are handed over to state officials, a day after authorities secured their release.
The children — many wearing football jerseys — were driven into the Niger State Government House in white buses escorted by a dozen military vans and armoured vehicles.
Dozens of the 315 students and staff abducted from the school in north-central Niger state are still missing.
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