The
Department of State Security Services, SSS, on Saturday told President
Muhammadu Buhari that three University of Maiduguri, UNIMAID, lecturers
abducted by Boko Haram terrorists in Magumeri, Borno State, have been released.
Also released are 10 women, kidnapped in a raid
by the militant group on a military/police convoy on Damboa road, near
Maiduguri.
The university lecturers were abducted by the
group while conducting oil prospective in the Lake Chad area on behalf of the
Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC.
Some of their colleagues were killed during the
abduction in 2017.
“Their release followed a series of
negotiations as directed by President Buhari and was facilitated by the
International Committee of the Red Cross, ICRC,” said Garba Shehu, presidential
spokesperson.
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