Overview
- About 130 students in the last group were released and delivered to Niger state authorities on December 22.
- Security forces escorted six vans carrying the children in armored vehicles to the state government headquarters.
- Presidency spokesman Sunday Dare said there are no remaining hostages after phased rescue operations.
- Roughly 100 students had been freed earlier in the month, though officials have not confirmed the total number abducted.
- The Christian Association of Nigeria estimates 315 students and staff were taken, underscoring a decade of school kidnappings that includes the 2014 Chibok case with about 90 still unaccounted for.