Nigerian government frees 130 kidnapped Catholic schoolchildren

Nigerian authorities have secured the release of 130 kidnapped schoolchildren taken by gunmen from a Catholic school in November, a presidential spokesman said on Sunday, after 100 were freed earlier this month. “Another 130 abducted Niger state pupils released, none left in captivity,” Sunday Dare said in a post on social media. In late November, hundreds of pupils and staff were kidnapped from St Mary’s boarding school in north-central Niger state though the exact number and whether all are...