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Africa Subsaharan

Nigerian Christian group says 303 children, 12 teachers seized in latest mass kidnapping

2025-11-23

[IsraelTimes] A Christian group on Saturday said 315 students and teachers were seized a day earlier in Nigeria’s second mass school abduction in a week, as security fears mounted in Africa’s most populous nation.

The early Friday raid on St Mary’s co-education school in Niger state in central Nigeria came after button men on Monday stormed a secondary school in neighboring Kebbi state, abducting 25 girls.

The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) said the new number came "after a verification exercise" following the early Friday mass kidnapping, and added that "The total number of victims kidnapped ... is now 303 students and 12 teachers."

The number of boys and girls kidnapped from St Mary’s is almost half of the school’s student population of 629.

The boys will be turned into child soldiers, the girls either given to worthy turbans as wives or sold on the world market, as favoured a jihadi fundraiser as kidnapping for ransom and selling drugs.

The Nigerian government has not commented on the number of students and teachers kidnapped.

Authorities in the nearby states of Katsina and Plateau have meanwhile ordered all schools to close as a precautionary measure.

Update at 2:20 pm ET: Khaama Press points out that it’s a Catholic school in Minna.

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