Nigeria is facing an increase in kidnappings, after two mass kidnappings in less than a week. In the North-East, more than a hundred displaced women and girls are missing in the Borno region where Boko Haram and Iswap jihadists are active.
Nearly 300 students from Kuriga school in the Kaduna region were kidnapped by armed men and taken into the forest. Military reinforcements were mobilized, on the orders of President Bola Tinubu, to try to find the hostages.