<div><span style="font-size: 10pt;">In Nigeria, nearly 80 schoolgirls have been rescued by the Army after being kidnapped by suspected Boko Haram attackers, who raided their school in northeast Nigeria </span><span tabindex="0" class="aBn" data-term="goog_906097502" style="font-size: 10pt;">on Monday</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">, a state official said. <br />''<br />''Commissioner of Education for Yobe state, Mohammed Alamin, said the exact number of girls will be confirmed today, when the school will be visited. He said the girls were rescued at a border town between Borno and Yobe yesterday. After the rescue, the girls were taken to the Geidam Army Base in Yobe and were undergoing medical checks.<br />''<br />''</span></div>''<div>Boko Haram kidnapped nearly 300 girls from a school in Chibok in April 2014, setting off global outrage. Many of the Chibok girls were freed after negotiations, but more than 100 remain in captivity, their whereabouts unknown.</div>