New Delhi, July 11 -- ABUJA - Fifty-six days after gunmen seized 46 students and teachers from three schools in Nigeria's Oyo state, President Bola Tinubu announced on Friday that all of them had come home. No ransom changed hands. Eight attackers were in custody. An unspecified number of assailants had been killed during the military-led rescue. For the families who had spent nearly two months without contact, the news arrived as relief long deferred and as confirmation that Nigeria's school kidnapping crisis has found new ground in parts of the country where such attacks once seemed distant.

The abductions took place on May 15, 2026, when armed men descended on two primary schools and one secondary school in Oyo state, in southwestern ...