Abductions in Nigerian schools

A father has told the BBC he felt powerless as he witnessed gunmen on motorbikes abduct dozens of children, including his son, after storming a Catholic boarding school in northern Nigeria in the early hours of Friday. The Roman Catholic Church in Nigeria says 265 people are still missing after a mass kidnapping from a school in Niger state on Friday. We speak to our reporter who has been speaking to parents.

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Presenter: Luke Jones.

(Photo: Parents of kidnapped schoolchildren wait outside St. Mary's Private Catholic School in Papiri, Niger State, Nigeria, 24 November 2025. Credit: AFOLABI SOTUNDE/EPA/Shutterstock)