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Weekend: Mass abductions rock Nigeria

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Mass abductions rock Nigeria

10/03/2024 GMT

BBC World Service - Weekend, Mass abductions rock Nigeria

Armed groups kidnap dozens of students in north of the country

Armed groups kidnap dozens of students in north of the country.

Yesterday morning armed men stormed a school in the Nigerian state of Sokoto taking fifteen students and four women.  On Thursday in Kaduna state, nearly 300 pupils were kidnapped and taken into nearby forests.

Also in the programme: Israel's revised Eurovision song submission will be unveiled after the previous song broke competition rules on political neutrality; and we hear from the special effects co-ordinator who has been nominated three times in the same category for Hollywood's Academy Awards.

Joining Julian Worricker to discuss this and more are Dr Yu Jie, senior research fellow on China in the Asia-Pacific Programme at Chatham House and Jeffrey Kofman former reporter and now CEO of AI transcript service Trint.

(Picture: A boy holds a sign to protest against the kidnapping of hundreds school pupils by gunmen in Kaduna state in Nigeria. Credit: REUTERS)

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