{"id":73342,"date":"2021-03-02T13:50:32","date_gmt":"2021-03-02T13:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/?p=73342"},"modified":"2021-03-08T06:05:02","modified_gmt":"2021-03-08T06:05:02","slug":"nigerian-governor-says-279-kidnapped-schoolgirls-are-freed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/73342-nigerian-governor-says-279-kidnapped-schoolgirls-are-freed\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian Governor Says 279 Kidnapped Schoolgirls Are Freed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/03\/photo_2021-03-03_02-47-01-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-73442\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/03\/photo_2021-03-03_02-47-01-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/03\/photo_2021-03-03_02-47-01-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/03\/photo_2021-03-03_02-47-01-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/03\/photo_2021-03-03_02-47-01-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/03\/photo_2021-03-03_02-47-01.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p>Hundreds of Nigerian schoolgirls abducted last week from a boarding school in the northwestern Zamfara state have been released, the state\u2019s governor said Tuesday.<br>Zamfara state governor Bello Matawalle announced that 279 girls have been freed. The government last week said 317 had been kidnapped.<br>Gunmen abducted the girls from the Government Girls Junior Secondary School in Jangebe town on Friday, in the latest in a series of mass kidnappings of students in the West African nation.<br>\u201cAlhamdulillah! (God be praised!) It gladdens my heart to announce the release of the abducted students of GGSS Jangebe from captivity. This follows the scaling of several hurdles laid against our efforts. I enjoin all well-meaning Nigerians to rejoice with us as our daughters are now safe,\u201d Matawalle said in a post on Twitter early Tuesday.<br>At the time of the attack, one resident told AP that the gunmen also attacked a nearby military camp and checkpoint, preventing soldiers from responding to the mass abduction at the school.<br>One of the girls recounted the night of their abduction to the AP.<br>\u201cWe were sleeping at night when suddenly we started hearing gunshots. They were shooting endlessly. We got out of our beds and people said we should run, that they are thieves,\u201d she said. \u201cEverybody fled and there were just two of us left in the room.\u201d<br>The attackers held guns to the girls&#8217; heads, she said.<br>\u201cI was really afraid of being shot,\u201d she said, adding that they asked for directions to the staff quarters and the principal. \u201cWe said we don&#8217;t know who she is. They said the principal is our father and they will teach us a lesson.&#8221;<br>Police and the military had since been carrying out joint operations to rescue the girls, whose abduction caused international outrage.<br>President Muhammadu Buhari expressed \u201coverwhelming joy\u201d over the release of the girls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of Nigerian schoolgirls abducted last week from a boarding school in the northwestern Zamfara state have been released, the state\u2019s governor said Tuesday.Zamfara state governor Bello Matawalle announced that 279 girls have been freed. The government last week said 317 had been kidnapped.Gunmen abducted the girls from the Government Girls Junior Secondary School in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":73442,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[18,31,30],"tags":[2225,1239],"class_list":["post-73342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa","category-news","category-world","tag-kidnapped","tag-nigerian"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Nigerian Governor Says 279 Kidnapped Schoolgirls Are Freed - Shia Waves<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/73342-nigerian-governor-says-279-kidnapped-schoolgirls-are-freed\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Nigerian Governor Says 279 Kidnapped Schoolgirls Are Freed - Shia Waves\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Hundreds of Nigerian schoolgirls abducted last week from a boarding school in the northwestern Zamfara state have been released, the state\u2019s governor said Tuesday.Zamfara state governor Bello Matawalle announced that 279 girls have been freed. 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