A final group of 130 kidnapped Nigerian schoolchildren freed by the government on Sunday are expected to be reunited with their families in the central Niger state on Monday, ending a month-long ordeal that drew global concern.

The children were among more than 300 pupils and 12 staff seized from St. Mary’s Catholic School in Papiri, a hamlet a seven-hour drive from Minna, the Niger capital, on 21 November. This incident marks one of the country’s worst school kidnappings in recent years.

They are due to be taken to Minna later on Monday to meet their relatives in time for Christmas celebrations, President Bola Tinubu’s spokesperson said.

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