Around 100 schoolchildren kidnapped from a Catholic school in Nigeria last month were handed over to state officials Monday.

The children -- many wearing football jerseys and girls in long robes -- were driven to the Niger State Government House in white buses escorted by a dozen military vans and

armoured vehicles.

In late November 315 students and staff were kidnapped from St. Mary's co-educational boarding school in north-central Niger state, as the country buckled under a wave of mass abductions reminiscent of the infamous 2014 Boko Haram kidnapping of schoolgirls in Chibok.

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