The notorious terrorist group, Boko Haram, yesterday claimed it was behind the abduction of hundreds of students in northwestern Nigeria, in what appears to be a major expansion of the jihadist group’s activities into new areas. At least 333 students are still missing since the attack late Friday on the all-boys Government Science Secondary School in Katsina State — hundreds of kilometres from Boko Haram’s stronghold in northeastern Nigeria. In a 4:30 audio first published by HumAngle, the leader of Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau, said his group abducted the schoolboys because...