IBADAN, Nigeria: Nigerian security forces suffered “casualties” during the rescue of over 40 kidnapped schoolchildren and teachers, the army said Saturday, in an operation that put an end to a major security crisis in the country’s relatively safe southwest. The pupils, whose rescue was announced F»»»

IBADAN, Nigeria: Nigerian security forces suffered “casualties” during the rescue of over 40 kidnapped schoolchildren and teachers, the army said Saturday, in an operation that put an end to a major security crisis in the country’s relatively safe southwest. The pupils, whose rescue was announced F»»»

The hostages were taken from three separate schools in the southwestern state of Oyo in May. Two months after they were abducted in southwestern Nigeria, dozens of students and teachers have been rescued, the presidency says. In a statement on Friday, President Bola Tinubu said he was “profoundly h»»»