Nigeria, Feb. 26 -- President Muhammadu Buhari has vowed that his government will not succumb to blackmail by bandits following the latest abduction of students in Northern Nigeria.

PREMIUM TIMES reported how 317 schoolgirls were kidnapped by armed bandits from the Government Girls Secondary School in Jangebe, Zamfara State, Friday morning.

The Zamfara kidnap occurred about 10 days after 40 students, staff members and their family members were kidnapped from a secondary school in Niger State. The victims of the Niger kidnap were yet to be released at the time of this report.

In his reaction, President Buhari described the Zamfara kidnap as "inhumane and totally unacceptable," the president's spokesperson, Garba Shehu, said in a stateme...