Echioda said that the call became necessary to help rebuild their morals and lives of the affected girls.
Echioda said: “I appeal to the Federal Government to involve clergymen that will use their professional based knowledge and faith to counsel the girls
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Shehu said that the president, however, cautioned “Nigerians to be mindful of the fact that more than 30,000 fellow citizens were killed via terrorism’’
On the second anniversary of the kidnap of the girls, President Buhari affirmed that as a parent and leader of the country, he understands the torment, frustration and anxiety of the parents and will not spare any effort to ensure the safe return of the girls
A former Minister of Education, Dr. Oby Ezekwesili, had through her Twitter handle accused the President of not showing enough commitment during his meeting with the parents and the BBOG movement
Buhari, who expressed satisfaction with the performance of the troops, said Nigerians were equally concerned about their performance and were eagerly awaiting the return of the abducted Chibok girls
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“They have been evacuated to a safety zone for further processing,” Colonel Sani Usman said in a statement without specifying the number of people saved from the group, which seeks to create a caliphate in western Africa
The lawyer also urged Nigerians to be part of the project on the rescue of the girls by helping with any information that may be useful to security operatives
According to her: “The good people of Ogun State raise our voices once again to God in solidarity for the return of our Chibok schoolgirls and we believe there shall be positive change in Nigeria and miraculous release of our girls
Nigeria’s President-Elect, General Muhammadu Buhari, had on Monday promised to do everything possible to find the missing girls
He also pointed out the recent efforts of the military, which has led to the routing of Boko Haram from most of the territories that they formerly held, and appealed for some more patience and support from the Chibok community considering the unconventional method of the warfare with Boko Haram
The agency’s report was released a year after the Boko Haram’s kidnapping of 276 girls from their school in the north-eastern city of Chibok, inciting worldwide condemnation
One of the saddening part of the incident was; the president did not believe that the girls were abducted for almost 18 days after their abduction was made. Since the president got the information within 24 hours of the act, if he had reacted almost immediately, those girls would have been rescued before they got to their destination. Rather for the president to spring into actions after receiving briefings about the abduction, he doubted it
In a statement issued in Makurdi, Benu State on Friday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said the President should follow up his visit to the epi-centre of the Boko Haram battle with visits to the parents of the 219 missing Chibok girls as well as the families of the boys who were killed at the Federal Government College in Buni Yadi, Yobe State, last year
The special session is aimed reviewing the events of 2014 and convey expectations of 2015 with respect to the abducted Chibok girls
More than 200 students of the Government Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State were kidnapped on April 14 by the Boko Haram sect
“Mr. President, tongues are wagging that you know where the girls are and that you want them to be released only when it will give you the maximum political advantage. We don’t know if this is true or not, but if it is, please release the girls now,” the party said in a statement issued in Abuja on Thursday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed
The march is scheduled to begin at the Unity Fountain, located close to Transcorp Hilton Hotels, Maitama, and proceed to the State House through the Federal Secretariat
But the spokesman of the Northern Elders Council in Abuja on Wednesday, Ambassador Yusuf Mamman, said the statement credited to Northern Elder Forum as unfortunate, saying that any attempt to politicize the insurgency will not augur well for the country