 Still talking security, gunmen abducted 136 students from an Islamic school in a north central Nigerian state of Niger on Sunday. A state official said on Wednesday that the figure is lower than the estimate of 200 previously offered by the federal government. Niger's deputy governor Ahmed Mohammed Kitso told reporters that the number of missing children has been established. The last update would disclose that government was making efforts to identify the budget, the allocation through the combined effort of the security agencies. We also confirmed the government had ordered all boarding schools in the area to temporarily revamp the, perhaps the reason the budget attacked the Islamic school. Government is now in touch with some of the parents of the kidnapped children. They have been assured of the safe return of their words. Let me restate our stance not to pay any form of ransom to any criminal like Kol Bandit. Let's find out about fresh news updates.