More than three hundred schoolboys who were abducted last week in Northwestern Nigeria have been freed, according to a state official.
State governor Aminu Bello Masari said the boys were kidnapped by bandits masquerading as the ISlamist terrorist group, Boko Haram.
Some of the abducted children had addressed the Nigerian government in a video released earlier on Thursday, which bore the logo of Boko Haram and requested the Nigerian government to close down schools that teach western education.