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Freed Nigerian schoolboys welcomed; calls for more security

by Carley PeteschLekan Oyekanmi
| December 19, 2020 12:06 AM

KATSINA, Nigeria (AP) — Bleary, barefoot, apparently numbed by a week of captivity, more than 300 Nigerian schoolboys, freed after being kidnapped in an attack on their school, were welcomed by the governor of Katsina state and Nigeria’s president on Friday.

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