Approximately two dozen West African young women who were abducted from a learning facility eight days prior were liberated, national leadership stated.
Gunmen stormed an educational institution situated within northwestern region last month, fatally wounding a worker and seizing two dozen plus one scholars.
Head of state the president commended security forces for their "immediate reaction" to the incident - while specific details of the girls' release remained unclear.
The continent's largest country has suffered multiple incidents of captures during current times - amounting to numerous students abducted from faith-based academy days ago remaining unaccounted for.
In a statement, an appointed consultant within the government asserted that each young woman captured at learning institution within the region were now safe, stating that the incident caused similar abductions within additional local territories.
Tinubu announced that more personnel will be assigned to "vulnerable areas to avert further incidents related to captures".
Through another message on X, Tinubu wrote: "Military aviation must sustain constant observation across distant regions, synchronising operations together with infantry to properly detect, isolate, disturb, and neutralise every threatening factor."
More than fifteen hundred students have been abducted from Nigerian schools in recent years, during which multiple young women were taken hostage amid the notorious major capture incident.
Days ago, at least three hundred students and employees got captured at an educational institution, faith-based academy, in Nigeria's Niger state.
Several dozen people taken from educational facility managed to get away as reported by religious organizations - however no fewer than numerous individuals haven't been located.
The main religious leader in the region has commented that national authorities is making "little substantial action" to save captured persons.
The abduction at the institution represented the third occurrence to hit Nigeria in a week, forcing the administration to call off journey to the G20 summit organized within South Africa at the weekend to manage the situation.
International education official Gordon Brown urged world leaders to "do our utmost" to help measures to bring back the abducted children.
Brown, a former UK prime minister, stated: "It's also incumbent on us to make certain learning facilities provide protected areas for studying, rather than places where children can be plucked from learning environments for criminal profit."