317 girls students from Zamfara state were kidnapped a few days back. However, one of them managed to escape from the abductors and describes her horrific experience. More than 100 girls are still missing.

Parents wait and pray for more than 300 kidnapped schoolgirls

Gunmen in Nigeria on Saturday released 42 people, including 27 students, who were kidnapped from a boarding school last week in the north-central state of Niger, the state's governor said.

School children abducted in Nigeria's Niger state released

Gunmen have abducted schoolgirls in northwest Nigeria's Zamfara state, a state spokesman said on Friday. The incident is the second such kidnapping in just over a week and the third since December in Nigeria's north, where a surge in armed militancy has led to a widespread breakdown of security.

Nigeria's growing kidnapping industry, hundreds have been killed