Hundreds Of Nigerian Schoolgirls Returned After Being Kidnapped From A Boarding School
All of the girls were accounted for and reported to be in good condition.
March 02, 2021 at 3:49 pm
Update (March 2, 2021): Less than a week after being kidnapped from a boarding school in Nigeria, hundreds of schoolgirls were released and safely returned to the government s statehouse.
The 279 girls, who were abducted on Friday when gunmen raided their school in Nigeria s northwest Zamfara State, are all accounted for and reported to be in “good condition,” CNN reported. Some received medical attention when they were returned to the Zamfara government s statehouse on Tuesday, mainly to treat open sores on their feet.
2 Feb 2021
A woman held captive by the Nigerian terror group Boko Haram since 2014 called her father last week claiming she had been “rescued” from her captors by the Nigerian Army, Reuters reported on Monday.
Halima Ali Maiyanga, 23, phoned her father on January 28 and “told him she had been rescued by the Nigerian army, but [her father] Maiyanga said he did not know her exact whereabouts or if she was alone or with more of her kidnapped former classmates,” the Thomson Reuters Foundation reported on February 1.
A Nigerian army spokesman denied that Halima’s alleged rescue from Boko Haram occurred in a statement to the press on February 1.
Published Monday, February 1, 2021 12:59PM EST ABUJA, Feb 1 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) Nearly seven years since Islamist militants kidnapped two of his daughters from their school in northeastern Nigeria, a hurried phone call let Ali Maiyanga know that his family s ordeal might soon be over. The call on Thursday evening was from Maiyanga s daughter Halima, who - along with her sister Maryam - was among more than 200 schoolgirls snatched by Boko Haram insurgents in Chibok in April 2014, sparking a global #BringBackOurGirls campaign. I was crying, she was crying, said Maiyanga, who was preparing to get married to his fourth wife when he heard Halima s voice down the line.
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ABUJA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Nearly seven years since Islamist militants kidnapped two of his daughters from their school in northeastern Nigeria, a hurried phone call let Ali Maiyanga know that his family’s ordeal might soon be over.
The call on Thursday evening was from Maiyanga’s daughter Halima, who - along with her sister Maryam - was among more than 200 schoolgirls snatched by Boko Haram insurgents in Chibok in April 2014, sparking a global #BringBackOurGirls campaign.
“I was crying, she was crying,” said Maiyanga, who was preparing to get married to his fourth wife when he heard Halima’s voice down the line.
Daily Post Nigeria
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The Kibakwu community have reacted to the news of the escape of some Chibok schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram terrorists from a Government Secondary School Borno, in 2014.
The community members also raised concern that the purported escape of the girls was only a fluke which has raised and dashed their hopes at the same time.
Kibakwu is a community in Chibok local government area of Borno State, Northeast Nigeria.
A member of the Kibakwu Association, Bulus Abana told DAILY POST in Maiduguri, that their hopes were raised when the news of the girls’ escape filtered in.