Atleast 300 students of Government Girls Secondary School, Jangebe, Zamfara, were abducted on Thursday night, BBC Hausa reported, more than a week after 42 students and staff were kidnapped from a school in Kagara, Niger State.
Zailani Bappah, the special assistant on public enlightenment, confirmed the abduction to BBC Pidgin on Friday morning.
Recall that kidnappers dressed in military fatigue captured 42 people, including 27 schoolboys, three teachers and other relatives of school staff from Government Science College in Kagara, Niger State last week.
Northwest and central Nigeria have seen a surge in attacks by heavily-armed criminal gangs locally known as “bandits” who raid villages, killing and abducting residents after looting and torching homes.
