No ransom paid to gunmen for schoolboys' release: Nigerian gov't


By Bosun
  • World
  • Saturday, 19 Dec 2020

LAGOS, Dec. 18 (Xinhua) -- The Nigerian government on Friday said it paid no ransom to secure the release of schoolboys abducted from a school in the northwestern town of Kankara last week.

The schoolboys kidnapped from the Government Science Secondary School Kankara in the northwestern Katsina State were released by their captors. The students were kidnapped by Boko Haram insurgents on Dec. 11.

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