Additional details have emerged about the students and staff of St Mary’s Catholic School in Papiri, Niger State, who regained their freedom on Sunday, December 21, exactly one month after they were abducted from their dormitories. Legit.ng reports that the kidnapping and release of the students and staff members comes amid a resurgence of mass kidnappings across Nigeria, highlighting the country’s worsening security crisis. A decade after the abduction of nearly 300 schoolgirls in Chibok, Borno State, kidnap-for-ransom has evolved into what SBM Intelligence describes as a structured criminal enterprise, generating an estimated N2.56 billion between July 2024 and June 2025.
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