By
Macdonald Dzirutwe and
Ben Ezeamalu
November 22, 2025 rbbm.
Nigeria is under renewed global scrutiny after gunmen abducted more than 300 students from a Catholic school in the northwest, the second major attack this week following a deadly assault on a church service.
www.reuters.com
'LAGOS, Nov 22 (Reuters) - Nigeria is under renewed global scrutiny after gunmen abducted more than
300 students from a Catholic school in the northwest,
the second major attack this week following a deadly assault on a
church service.'
''If confirmed, Friday's attack on St Mary's School in Niger state - roughly the size of Serbia - would be Nigeria's worst school abduction since the kidnapping of 276
Chibok girls by Boko Haram in the northeast in 2014.
No one has publicly claimed responsibility for the latest assaults, although the perpetrators of the church raid on Tuesday appear to belong to an armed gang motivated by ransom money.
The attacks are indiscriminate and follow a similar pattern. Gangs known locally as bandits arrive, shoot sporadically to scare people, abduct victims and vanish into nearby forests.''
Nov 23, 2025
''Fifty of the 303 schoolchildren abducted from a Catholic school in north-central Nigeria’s Niger state have escaped captivity and are now with their families, the school authority said Sunday, bringing relief to some distraught families after one of the largest school abductions in Nigeria’s history.
The schoolchildren, aged between 10 and 18, escaped individually between Friday and Saturday, according to the Most Rev. Bulus Dauwa Yohanna, chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria in Niger state and the proprietor of the school.
A total of 253 schoolchildren and 12 teachers are still being held by the kidnappers, he said in a statement.''
