•Nearly 300 students were abducted from their school in Nigeria’s northwest, riddled with Islamic extremists and armed gangs.
•The mass kidnapping in Kuriga was the third in northern Nigeria in a week; with 15 children abducted from another school, and a few days earlier 200 people abducted.
•The kidnappings are a stark reminder of the security crisis plaguing Africa’s most populous country.
•No group claimed responsibility for any of the recent abductions.
•But Islamic extremists waging an insurgency in the northeast are suspected of carrying out the kidnapping in Borno.
•In 2014, Islamic extremists abducted more than 200 schoolgirls from Borno’s Chibok, sparking the global #BringBackOurGirls social media campaign.
•Atleast 1,400 Nigerian students have so far been abducted from schools. Some are still held captive, including 100 of Chibok girls.