Emotional scenes unfolded in Nigeria's Oyo State as students rescued after months in captivity reunited with their families. The students, who were abducted by Islamist militants in May, were freed during a security operation that also led to the arrest of eight suspected militants. Families expressed relief and gratitude as they welcomed their children home after weeks of uncertainty. Nigerian authorities said school kidnappings remain a serious security challenge, with armed groups frequently targeting students to pressure the government and demand ransom. The Nigerian Senate has also approved financial assistance for the families of those who lost their lives during the rescue mission.

Nigeria students reunite with families after rescue | Hostages freed months after Islamist kidnapping 

Nigerian gunmen have freed the remaining pupils from more than 100 kidnapped from an Islamic seminary in northwestern Niger State nearly three months ago, the school's head teacher said on Thursday.

Nigerian gunmen free dozens of kidnapped seminary pupils, says teacher

In northwest Nigeria, 15 high school students were released by bandits after their parents were forced to pay an undisclosed ransom to free them. The 15 students are among the 100 students who were kidnapped on July 5 from the Bethel Baptist High School in Kaduna.

Nigeria: Gunmen free 15 abducted high school students after parents pay ransom

Gunmen abducted scores of students from an Islamic seminary in Nigeria. Authorities said that nearly 200 students were present at the time of kidnapping. However, the number of students who were abducted is yet to be confirmed.

Gunmen in Nigeria abduct students from Islamic school

Kidnappers have released the remaining 29 students they were holding captive from a college in Nigeria’s Kaduna state. In March, militants had seized 39 students from the College of Forestry Mechanization in Kaduna state. Security forces recovered 10 of them in the weeks following the attack, but the remaining students were still missing until Wednesday.

Nigeria: Kidnappers free 29 college students abducted in Kaduna state

A video emerged from Nigeria showing college students that were kidnapped being prodded by the abductors while the students beg for their lives. The video, which first popped up on March 13 showed girls cowering on the floor in a forest, while armed abductors hit them with sticks.

Watch: Nigerian students kidnapped by gunmen beg for their lives

All 279 Nigerian students kidnapped from their boarding school in the northern state of Zamfara have been released and are on government premises, the governor of the state told AFP Tuesday.

Kidnappers release all 279 Nigerian students after talks with government

Gunmen seized more than 300 girls in a night-time raid on a school in northwest Nigeria on Friday (February 26). According to the latest reports, kidnapped schoolgirls are freed now.

Reports: 317 kidnapped schoolgirls freed in Nigeria

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

Kidnappers have freed 42 people, including 27 children, snatched from a school in central Nigeria 10 days ago, officials said on Saturday, a day after more than 300 schoolgirls were abducted by gunmen in the northwest.

42 people, including 27 school children abducted from Nigerian school released

Kidnappers have released 53 people including women and children they seized on a bus in Nigeria, local authorities said, while dozens of others taken from a school in a separate incident are still missing.

Kidnappers in Nigeria release 53 including women and children seized on bus

Former Nigeria midfielder Christian Obodo has made a sensational escape from suspected kidnappers in the country’s oil-rich Delta State. Obodo, who has spent over a decade in Serie A including spells with Fiorentina and Udinese, was reported to have been kidnapped in Nigeria’s Delta State on Sunday.

'I was praying...' - Ex footballer Christian Obodo escapes from Nigeria kidnappers