NEWS - EXTRA

 I don't watch US television news sources so I'm not sure if this made the grade.  This from the BBC.

In Papiri, Niger State, on Friday morning, 303 students and 14 staff were abducted from the St. Mary's Catholic boarding school.  It is the third mass attack in one week, following the kidnapping of schoolgirls in Chibok state and an attack on a church in yet another state.

You should know that Niger State is a state of Nigeria in west Africa.  Nigeria has 36 states.  There is a country named Niger which borders Nigeria but this is not the place we are talking about.  It's like New Mexico is not part of Mexico.

In 2014, 276 schoolgirls were kidnapped from Chibok State, Nigeria by Boko Haram forces.  While some have excaped or been released, over 100 are still missing.

The incidents I have noted above have occurred in three different states within Nigeria.   Boko Haram is an Islamic Jihadist Terrorist group operating in that country. No group has yet claimed responsibility for the current abductions and attack.