Nigeria denies report it paid ‘huge’ ransom to free pupils in mass abduction

Nigeria's government has rejected a media report alleging that it paid a "huge" ransom to Islamist militant group Boko Haram to secure the release of more than 200 pupils and staff abducted from a Catholic boarding school in November.


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