All 24 kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls rescued after armed attack in Kebbi, president says

All 24 schoolgirls who were abducted by equipped assailants from a schoolhouse past week successful Nigeria’s Kebbi authorities person been rescued, the country's president announced Tuesday.

Gunmen with "sophisticated weapons" abducted the girls astir 4 a.m. connected Nov. 17, constabulary said astatine the time, and a connection Tuesday quoted President Bola Tinubu arsenic saying that each 24 of the students who had been abducted were rescued. 

"I americium relieved that each the 24 girls person been accounted for," the connection quoted Tinubu arsenic saying. "Now, we indispensable enactment arsenic a substance of urgency much boots connected the crushed successful the susceptible areas to avert further incidents of kidnapping."

No details were released astir the rescue ngo oregon astir the radical that kidnapped the girls.

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Nigerian President Bola Ahmed Tinubu delivers a nationalist code connected the juncture of 'October 1 Independence Day' successful Abuja, Nigeria connected Oct. 1, 2025. (Nigerian Presidency / Handout/Anadolu via Getty Images)

The onslaught successful Kebbi was among a spate of caller wide abductions successful Nigeria.

A pistillate looks connected arsenic she walks past a schoolroom successful Shehu Kangiwa Model Primary School successful Argungu, Kebbi State, successful bluish Nigeria connected April 12, 2025. (Leslie Fauvel / AFP via Getty Images)

Attackers raided a Catholic schoolhouse Friday successful north-central Niger authorities and abducted much than 300 students and staff. 

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School officials said Sunday that 50 students, ages 10 to 18, escaped individually betwixt Friday and Saturday. A full of 253 students and 12 teachers were inactive being held, they said.

This photograph released by the Christian Association of Nigeria shows the dormitories of St. Mary's Catholic Primary and Secondary School aft gunmen abducted children and unit successful Papiri assemblage successful Nigeria, Friday, Nov. 21, 2025. (Christian Association of Nigeria via AP)

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Nigeria has seen a bid of attacks connected Christians and their institutions, prompting President Donald Trump to state the West African federation a "country of peculiar concern." However, the Nigerian authorities has disputed the U.S. claims.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.