Nigeria, Nov. 26 -- President Bola Tinubu has commended the swift response by security forces that led to the rescue on Tuesday of the 24 schoolgirls abducted by terrorists in Maga, Kebbi State, last Monday.

PREMIUM TIMES reported how armed terrorists attacked the Government Girls Comprehensive Secondary School, Maga, and abducted the schoolgirls last Monday. The schoolgirls were released eight days after they were kidnapped.

The incident preceded other mass kidnappings in Eruku in Kwara State and Papiri in Niger State.

All 38 worshippers kidnapped in a church in Eruku were freed on Sunday. The same day, the Niger State chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) said 50 of the missing students of the Catholic School in Nige...