Nigeria faces another school abduction after gunmen attack a Catholic institution
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Gunmen attacked a Catholic boarding school in a western region of Nigeria and abducted schoolchildren and staff on Friday, the latest in a spate of abductions in Africa's most populous country just days after 25 schoolgirls were abducted in a neighboring state. The attack and abductions took place at St. Mary’s School, a Catholic institution in the Agwara local government’s Papiri community, said Abubakar Usman, the secretary to the Niger state government. He the of...
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