 Gunmen abducted 136 students from an Islamic school in the 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 recorded by the federal government. Niger State's Deputy Governor Ahmed Mohammed Queso told reporters the number of missing children has been established. Our 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 revout 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 list this, our stand not to pay any form of ransom to any criminal by call banning. News Updates