Nigeria: Secure Release of Tegina School Children

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Nigeria: Secure Release of Tegina School Children

[Daily Trust] The abduction of about 200 school children in Tegina, Niger State, is the second most traumatic incident for the nation since the Chibok girls kidnap of April 2014.

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