The rescue of two dozen girls kidnapped from a Catholic school in northwestern Nigeria, highlights the surge in militant violence targeting religious communities in the region and the growing international concern over the crisis.

Gunmen have kidnapped at least 10 people in northern Nigeria, police have said, a day after the country’s President declared emergency measures to combat mass abductions, including the kidnapping of hundreds of children at their boarding school in the same state nearly a week ago.

More than 300 children and a dozen teachers were taken from St. Mary’s School in north-central Nigeria, the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) said on Saturday. Armed men reportedly stormed the school, a Catholic institution located in the Papiri community of Niger state, around 2 a.m. local time on Friday.

Gunmen have kidnapped more than 300 students and teachers in one of the largest mass kidnappings in Nigeria, a Christian group said Saturday, as security fears mounted in Africa's most populous nation.

Nigeria is under renewed global scrutiny after gunmen abducted more than 300 students from a Catholic school in the northwest, the second major attack this week following a deadly assault on a church service.

The Publisher of NewsOrient Network, Samuel Hezekiah Egburonu, is among the 942 latest aspirants called to the Nigerian Bar as

Gunmen have kidnapped more than 300 schoochildren and teachers in one of the largest mass kidnappings in Nigeria, a Christian group said Saturday. No group has yet claimed responsibility for what is the second abduction in a week in Africa's most populous nation.