Nigeria, Nov. 22 -- The Minister of State for Defence, Bello Matawalle, says troops have identified the location of schoolgirls abducted on Monday in Kebbi State.

Twenty-five students of the Government Girls Comprehensive Secondary School Maga, in Danko Wasagu Local Government Area, were abducted by bandits. However, officials said one of the students later escaped and returned home.

Mr Matawalle, during a media briefing in Birnin Kebbi on Saturday, said significant progress had been made since the deployment of the security agencies to rescue the abducted schoolgirls.

"The issue of security is sensitive, but so far, the intelligence we had at hand shows that we are almost close to those children (the abducted school girls).

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