The Nigeria military announced on Thursday that it had freed four Nasarawa State University, Keffi, undergraduate students who had been kidnapped on Tuesday from their dorm.

The undergraduates were reportedly kidnapped early on Tuesday by armed men who broke into their home in Angwan Kaare, in the state’s Keffi Local Government Area, and took them to an unidentified location. This information was first reported by The PUNCH.

However, they were freed on Thursday by members of the Nigerian Army’s 117 Battalion, Keffi, as a result of persistent pressure on the abductors.

The battalion’s commanding officer, Lt. Col.Auwalu Inuwa. This information was provided to our Lafia-based correspondent.

He related how, after painstaking efforts by the military officers, the students were found hiding in the bushes near Angwan Gauta in the Keffi LGA.

Rahila Hanya, Josephine Gershon, Rosemary Samuel, and Goodness Samuel were among the names of the students who had been saved that he mentioned.

After thorough medical examinations, he said, the students would be returned to their families.