Freed Nigerian schoolboys return home, tell of beatings and hunger
AFOLABI SOTUNDE SCORES of schoolboys who were rescued from kidnappers in northwest Nigeria have arrived back home, many of them barefoot and wrapped in blankets after their week-long ordeal. The boys, dressed in dusty clothes, looked dazed and weary but otherwise well as they got off buses in the city of Katsina. Within hours - before many had met their waiting parents - they were whisked to a reception with President Muhammadu Buhari, who had come under mounting pressure to free them and deal with insecurity in the north. One boy, who did not give his name, said the captors…
