The group includes 27 students, three teachers and nine family members, the state government said in a statement citing all of them.
A student who died in the attack was named Benjamin Habila.
Governor of Abubakar Sani Bello According to its chief press secretary Mary Noel Barje, has closed all boarding schools in the area and dispatched the army to rescue the kidnappers from the school.
President Buhari has condemned the kidnapping of the school children.
“The president has instructed the armed forces and police to ensure that all prisoners return promptly and safely,” Buhari spokesman Garba Shehu said in a statement Wednesday.
“The president has also sent a team of security chiefs to Minna, Niger state to coordinate the rescue operation and to meet with government officials, community leaders, as well as parents and college staff.”
A former Nigerian senator, Shehu Sani, told CNN the school is unfenced and would have provided easy access for militants.
Sani, who was also a student of the school, told CNN: “The city is at the epicenter of the uprising in the state of Niger. Fulani bandits operate within the ashes and thousands of people have been displaced in this area. The bandits in it. northwest Nigeria will be more deadly and destructive than Boko Haram. ”
Buhari recently retired and appointed new chiefs of Nigeria’s security forces amid mounting insecurity and kidnappings in the country.
The security situation in Nigeria is “overwhelming and threatens the peace of the country,” Sani told CNN.
“It is a shame that the service chiefs were allowed to stay that long,” he added.