300 children kidnapped from school in Nigeria, as president Tinubu says he’ll ‘ensure justice is served’

​Nigeria's president Bola Tinubu has directed security agencies to rescue the children. Photo: Getty Images

Garba Muhammad

Seven-year-old Safiya Kuriga complained she was feeling feverish but her mother still made her attend class on Thursday. Within two hours, gunmen entered her school and kidnapped Safiya and some 300 other students in Nigeria’s northern Kaduna state.

“I forced her to go to school that morning despite her complaining to me of a fever,” a sobbing Khadiya Kuriga told Reuters by phone from Kuriga town. “We have been crying since yesterday. Our children are hungry.”