By Deborah Nnamdi
One of the 25 schoolgirls abducted by terrorists from a boarding school in Kebbi State has escaped from captivity and returned home, the school’s principal confirmed on Tuesday.
The attack occurred in the early hours of Monday, November 17, when armed men stormed the Government Girls’ Comprehensive Secondary School, Maga, in Danko-Wasagu Local Government Area. The gunmen killed a staff member before whisking away 25 students into nearby forests.
According to the principal, Musa Rabi Magaji, one of the abducted girls managed to slip away from the kidnappers and made her way back home late on Monday—just hours after the abduction. Her return has offered a ray of hope to distressed families anxiously awaiting updates on their missing children.
Magaji further revealed that another student, who was not among the 25 officially confirmed as abducted, also escaped during the confusion that followed the attack.
She said security agencies have since intensified search-and-rescue operations across the region, amid growing concerns about the resurgence of school kidnappings that continue to haunt communities in northwestern Nigeria.
The incident marks the latest assault on educational institutions in northern Nigeria, more than 10 years after Boko Haram’s abduction of 276 schoolgirls in Chibok drew global condemnation and highlighted the persistent threat of school-related violence in the region.
