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Freed Nigerian Schoolgirls Finally Reunited with Families after 3 Years

by Bashir AdigunMay 20, 2017January 25, 2022

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — The 82 Nigerian schoolgirls recently released after more than three years in Boko Haram captivity reunited with their families Saturday as anxious parents looked for signs […]

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Nigerian President ‘Delighted’ to Meet Newly Freed 82 Chibok Schoolgirls

by Bashir AdigunMay 7, 2017January 25, 2022

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari expressed joy at meeting Sunday with the 82 Chibok schoolgirls newly freed after being held captive for three years by Boko Haram […]

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Timeline: Nigeria’s Chibok Girls, Kidnapped by Boko Haram

by Associated PressJanuary 5, 2017January 25, 2022

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — It has been nearly three years since Boko Haram extremists abducted almost 300 Chibok schoolgirls in northeastern Nigeria, shocking the world. Almost 200 of the girls […]

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Nigeria Finds Chibok Girl Kidnapped by Boko Haram in 2014

by Associated PressJanuary 5, 2017January 25, 2022

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria’s military says soldiers have found one of the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram nearly three years ago wandering in the bush near the Islamic […]

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Nigeria Officials Stop Free Chibok Girls Being Home for Xmas

by Associated PressDecember 27, 2016January 25, 2022

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Kidnapped girls freed from more than two years of captivity by Boko Haram Islamic extremists were prevented by Nigerian officials from spending Christmas at home with […]

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Nigeria’s President: Boko Haram is Crushed, Forced Out of Last Enclave

by Michelle FaulDecember 24, 2016January 25, 2022

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — The Boko Haram extremist group has finally been crushed — driven from its last forest enclave with fighters on the run and no place to hide, […]

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Nigeria Says 21 of Abducted Chibok Schoolgirls are Freed

by Associated PressOctober 13, 2016January 25, 2022

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — Nigerian officials say 21 Chibok schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram extremists more than two years ago have been freed. In this undated image taken from video […]

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Nigeria Marks 2nd Anniversary of Kidnap of Chibok Girls

by Stephanie CornishApril 14, 2016January 25, 2022

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — With marches, chants and prayers, Nigerians marked Thursday’s painful second anniversary of the mass abduction of the Chibok girls, still angry and frustrated the teenagers have not been […]

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Boko Haram Kidnaps Hundreds, Tells Stories of Chibok Girls

by Stephanie CornishFebruary 11, 2015January 25, 2022

YOLA, Nigeria (AP) — When Islamic extremists snatched more than 270 girls from the Chibok boarding school in Nigeria in the dead of night, protests broke out worldwide. The U.S. […]

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63 Females Abducted in Nigeria 
2 Weeks Ago Escape

by Associated PressJuly 7, 2014January 25, 2022

Nigerian girls kidnapped by the Boko. (Courtesy Photo:BringBackOurGirls/Facebook) MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — More than 60 Nigerian girls and women abducted by Islamic extremists two weeks ago have managed to escape, […]

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