After 92 Days, Kidnapped Nigerian Students and Matron Released; 10 Students Still Held

The hole knocked in the wall surrounding the Bethel Baptist High School in Kaduna state, Nigeria on July 5, 2021. Kidnappers used the hole to take the kidnapped students out of the compound. Luka Binniyat/The Epoch Times

KADUNA, Nigeria—The eyes of the West are slowly turning toward Nigeria’s complex agony, but for the family of Abigail Philip, the big news is that “mom is back home.”

Philip, a widow and mother of five, and matron of the Bethel Baptist High School Academy, spent 92 days as a kidnap victim along with her 127 students in a forest near the city of Kaduna.