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KADUNA: Wrapped in orange headscarves and blue faculty uniforms, over 100 Nigerian college students and employees who have been kidnapped this month arrived on the native authorities constructing within the nation’s north on Monday, a day after they have been freed by the military. “There are here 131 students, six others are currently being hospitalized and will be eventually discharged when they get better,” mentioned Main Normal MLD Saraso of the Nigerian military. He mentioned one of many 138 individuals kidnapped, a college employees member, had died in captivity. The military introduced on Sunday it had rescued 137 hostages – 76 feminine and 61 male – within the neighbouring state of Zamfara, days earlier than a deadline to pay a 1 billion naira ($690,000) ransom for his or her launch. One safety supply mentioned he noticed 14 black baggage, which he assumed contained the ransom cash, being delivered to the Dansadau enclave in Zamfara State. He requested to not be named for fears of the attainable repercussions. Data minister Mohammed Idris advised a press briefing in Abuja that no ransom was paid. College officers and residents put the variety of college students kidnapped on March 7 within the city of Kuriga within the northwestern state of Kaduna at 287 whereas Governor Uba Sani put the determine at over 200. Given the discrepancies within the numbers reported, it was unclear if any hostages remained captured. Kuriga elders mentioned Sani had advised all of them the hostages had been freed. The kidnapping of scholars in Nigeria started over a decade in the past when jihadist group Boko Haram kidnapped 276 ladies from a college in Chibok in northeastern Borno State. Among the ladies have nonetheless not been launched.

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