Draft:2024 Kaduna State kidnapping

On 7 March 2024, gunmen stormed a school in Kaduna State, Nigeria, and reportedly took 287 students hostage. It is the largest kidnapping of students in Nigeria since the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapping of 2014.

Initially, the amount of students taken hostage was believed to be 100, until the school headmaster reportedly gave a head count and concluded that 287 or more students were kidnapped.