Breaking: Boko Haram ‘releases’ 21 Chibok Girls

SAN FRANCISCO, October 13, (THEWILL) – Twenty-one (21) of the over 200 abducted Chibok girls held by the Boko Haram sect have been released by the terrorist organization to the Nigerian government, SaharaReporters quotes a government source as saying.

The report, which could give the name of the freed girls, had it that the girls were picked up by military helicopter from Banki area of Borno state, where Boko Haram terrorists dropped them off earlier on Thursday.

The release of the 21 girls comes as President Muhammadu Buhari begins a three-day trip to Germany to discuss assistance for the rebuilding of the northeastern part of Nigeria ravaged by the Islamist sect.

Boko Haram abducted the girls from their school in Chibok, Borno State on April 14, 2014.

Story by Ugonnabo Ngwu.