The Names and Photographs Of Chibok Girls Abducted By Boko Haram have been Publish

On Friday, names and photographs of the 197 girls still in the

hands of the Boko Haram terrorist sect appeared in ThisDay

newspaper - 67 days after almost 300 female students were

abducted from their dormitories of the Government Girls

Secondary School in Chibok town, Borno State.

According to the report submitted by the fact-finding

Committee to President Goodluck Jonathan, which was set up

to look into the matter that sparked national and international

outrage, 276 girls were abducted on April 14, with 219 still

missing. 57 girls managed to escape from their captors ans

were reunited with their families.

The Nigerian government has accepted, received assistance

from and worked together with other countries, including the

United States and the United Kingdom, as well as France,

China, and Israel.

This week, United Nations Special Envoy for education Gordon

Brown, who has met the leader of the community council in

Chibok, said the community leader and the girls' families have

given permission for the names and photographs to be made

public. Also, a list of which exams the girls took shortly before

their abduction was published in the newspaper, with most

girls majoring in "government" (politics) and physics.

Some of the screenshots of the newspaper pages were made

and shared on Twitter by a prominent Nigerian political

commentator and journalist Tolu Ogunlesi.

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