Students abducted from their school in Jangebe, Talatu-Mafara Local Government Area of Zamfara State, are currently in Gusau, the state capital.
A bus conveyed them to the state capital around 5am on Tuesday.
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Addressing them at Government House, Gusau, Governor Bello Matawalle told the girls to take their ordeal in “good faith” and that “the enemies” would be shamed.
The girls were taken hostage on Friday. The number of those kidnapped was put at 317.
A first 279 were released by their kidnappers at 4am on Tuesday, and driven on a bus to Government House, Gusau.
Another 38 girls remain unaccounted for.
The abduction comes just two weeks after armed bandits abducted dozens of students and staff from a boys school in Kagara, Niger.
The students were freed on Saturday morning, a day after the abduction of Jangebe girls.
