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2 Mar, 5 tweets, 3 min read
#BREAKING Hundreds of kidnapped Nigerian students released: governor
#UPDATE All 279 Nigerian students kidnapped from their boarding school in Zamfara state have been released and are back on government property, the governor says.

"I am happy to announce that the girls are free," Dr. Bello Matawalle told an @AFP journalist
All 279 kidnapped Nigerian students have been released: governor.

Nigeria has been rocked by four mass abductions of students in less than three months, sparking widespread anger against the government

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VIDEO: Kidnapped Nigerian students released.

After being released, hundreds of students who had been kidnapped from their boarding school in northern Nigeria, gathered at Zamfara state government premises
Some of the 279 students kidnapped from their boarding school in northern Nigeria are seen at Government House in Gusau, Zamfara State, after their release.

Gunmen from a kidnapping-for-ransom gang attacked the Government Girls Secondary School on February 26

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