Gunmen have abducted more than 300 students and teachers from a Catholic co-educational school in Niger state, in one of Nigeria’s largest mass kidnappings, a Christian group said on Saturday. The attackers stormed St Mary’s School early Friday, days after gunmen raided a secondary school in neighbouring Kebbi state and seized 25 girls, deepening security fears in Africa’s most populous nation. The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), which initially reported 227 people abducted, said the figure rose to 303 students and 12 teachers after a “verification exercise,” as cited by AFP. The victims, boys and girls aged eight to 18, account for nearly half of St. Mary’s total enrolment of 629 students. Bago, whose administration had already shut several schools, announced a statewide

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