Nigeria’s government on Monday rescued 100 schoolchildren abducted last month from a Catholic school in Niger state, in one of the country’s biggest mass kidnappings in recent years.

The students arrived at the government house in Niger’s capital Minna and were handed over to the state governor.

President Bola Tinubu welcomed the rescue.

“My directive to our security forces remains that all the students and other abducted Nigerians across the country must be rescued and brought back home safely. We must account for all the victims,” he said.

Tinubu and Nigerian government officials did not comment publicly on how the rescue was conducted, and it was unclear whether the children had been freed through negotiations, ransom payments or a security operation.

One of the children, Florence

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