A total of 279 female students aged between 10 and 17 are kidnapped by bandits in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zamfara_kidnapping" id="mwARw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Zamfara kidnapping">Zamfara kidnapping</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zamfara_State" id="mwAR0" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Zamfara State">Zamfara State</a>, Nigeria.<sup about="#mwt153" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-28"}}' id="cite_ref-28" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./February_26#cite_note-28" id="mwAR4" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 28;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwAR8">[28]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-28"><cite about="#mwt150" class="citation news cs1" id="CITEREFOYEKANMIOLUKOYA2021">OYEKANMI, LEKAN; OLUKOYA, SAM (2 March 2021). <a class="external text" href="https://apnews.com/article/279-kidnapped-schoolgirls-freed-nigeria-3409c28c47d426329edf5cbfaac68cdb" id="mwB0A" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">"Nigerian governor says 279 kidnapped schoolgirls are freed"</a>. <i id="mwB0E">AP NEWS</i>. <a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210308031343/https://apnews.com/article/279-kidnapped-schoolgirls-freed-nigeria-3409c28c47d426329edf5cbfaac68cdb" id="mwB0I" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">Archived</a> from the original on 8 March 2021<span class="reference-accessdate" id="mwB0M">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap" id="mwB0Q">March 11,</span> 2021</span>.</cite><span about="#mwt150" class="Z3988" id="mwB0U" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.jtitle=AP+NEWS&amp;rft.atitle=Nigerian+governor+says+279+kidnapped+schoolgirls+are+freed&amp;rft.date=2021-03-02&amp;rft.aulast=OYEKANMI&amp;rft.aufirst=LEKAN&amp;rft.au=OLUKOYA%2C+SAM&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fapnews.com%2Farticle%2F279-kidnapped-schoolgirls-freed-nigeria-3409c28c47d426329edf5cbfaac68cdb&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFebruary+26"></span></span>