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THE over 100 schoolgirls abducted on Monday night at Chibok, Borno State, have been rescued. The military, in a statement, said only eight of the abducted girls were still missing. Military men and local hunters, alongside members of vigilante in Chibok Local Government Area of Borno State, on Wednesday, pursued the insurgents in search of the abducted school girls and rescued 80 of them.

There is controversy over the rescue of abducted school girls in Borno with the state government and the school principal faulting the military’s claim that most of the pupils have been freed The claim by military officials in Abuja on Wednesday that 107 abducted girls of Government Girls Secondary School (GGSS) Chibok were freed is a huge lie, Borno government officials, the management of the school and residents have said.

An apparently embarrassed Nigerian military on Thursday backtracked on its claim that it freed majority of the 129 female students of the Government Girls’ Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State, abducted on Monday night by suspected Boko Haram members.

Nigeria’s First Lady, Dame Jonathan To Lead Protest Over Missing Chibok Schoolgirls #BringBackOurGirlsNAN The first lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, has promised to stage a protest match to Chibok, Borno, if the abducted schoolgirls were not released.

Details Category: Lead stories Written by Isiaka Wakili Hits: 5065 First Lady Patience Jonathan has asked all Nigerian women to stop protesting over the abduction of over 200 schoolgirls of Borno State. She spoke at the Presidential Villa in Abuja during another meeting she convened over the issue.

NIGERIAN authorities have engaged the services of a hostage negotiator to commence talks with Boko Haram about securing the release of the 234 girls kidnapped from Government Girls Secondary School Chibok by Boko Haram on April 15.

Nigerians have reacted with outrage over President Goodluck Jonathan’s visit to Kano to welcome former governor of the state, Ibrahim Shekarau, to the Peoples Democratic Party, a day after a car bomb killed dozens of Nigeria and injured several others in a suburb of Abuja.

The deceased was the immediate younger brother to Vice President Sambo and died on April 27 at the Bill Clinton drive, Airport road, Abuja. President Goodluck Jonathan has directed that the weekly meeting of the Executive Council of the Federation, FEC, scheduled for Wednesday be shelved.

“You are playing games. Don’t use school children and women for demonstration again. Keep it to Borno.” The First Lady, Patience Jonathan, on Monday expressed displeasure at the absence of the wife of the Borno State governor, Nana Shettima, at a second enlarged stakeholders’ meeting on the abducted Chibok schoolgirls.

The kidnap of over 250 schoolgirls in Chibok may not have occurred if the Borno State Government had heeded the advice of an examination body, fresh facts have emerged. Aware of the poor security situation in Borno and worried about the safety of students, the West African Examination Council, WAEC, declined to conduct its Senior School Certificate Examination in unsafe parts of Borno, including Chibok.

Details Category: Big Story Written by Isiaka Wakili & Hamza Idris, Maiduguri Hits: 397 .Your Husband is in Charge of Security – Borno Elders .Presidential Media Chat Holds Today .Jonathan Summons Shettima, CP, Others First Lady Patience Jonathan has challenged Borno State Governor Kashim Shettima to produce the over 200 abducted girls of Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok.