Overview
- More than 300 pupils were seized from a Catholic school in Niger State on November 21, with at least about 50 reported to have escaped, according to Courrier International citing Vanguard.
- On November 17, 25 female students were abducted in Kebbi State, and one reportedly escaped, the same reporting said.
- The UN human rights office on November 25 pressed Nigeria to end the attacks and hold perpetrators to account, while the US president threatened military intervention.
- Vanguard, cited by Courrier International, reports 2,496 pupils kidnapped across 92 school attacks since 2014, including more than 180 children killed, 90 injured and over 90 still missing.
- Nigerian authorities have announced measures including recruiting 30,000 additional police, and Borno State police say they intensified efforts to free 13 girls taken from farmland by suspected insurgents.