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Dozens of kidnapped school boys arrived back home on Friday a day after security forces rescued them in north-west Nigeria.
Television pictures showed the boys, many of them wearing light green uniforms and clutching blankets, arriving on buses, looking weary but otherwise well.
Gunmen raided the Government Science Secondary School in Kankara town, Katsina state, on motorbikes and abducted the boys in the biggest such incident in the lawless region in recent years.
None of the boys spoke as they walked from the bus in single file, flanked by soldiers, into a government building. A group of their parents waited to be reunited with them in another part of town.
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President Muhammad Buhari has advised the 344 rescued schoolboys of Government Science Secondary school Kankara to put behind them the incident that occurred last week.
Buhari who gave the advise when he met them at the Presidential wing of the Government house, Katsina on Friday, said their education should be uppermost in their minds to enable them to achieve their desired goals in life.
According to him, as Science students, the incident should rather ginger them to attain their heart desires to become well-educated citizens.
The President who went down the memory lane of how he became what he is today, urged them not to be deterred but to face their studies with all the vigour and energy to become productive to achieve their aims.