#BBB NEWS| Chibok Girls: One Year After…

It’s been 12 months, 365 days, 52 weeks, 8,760 hours, 525,600 minutes and 31,536,000 seconds since the Chibok girls were abducted. On the night of 14–15 April 2014, the dastard Boko Haram sect members came like the thieves they are. They broke into Government Secondary School in the town of Chibok in Borno state. They were camouflaged as guards, urging the girls to get out and come with them. About 276 teenage girls were taken away in trucks, possibly into the Konduga area of the Sambisa Forest. 

The school had been closed for a fortnight prior to the attack due to the deteriorating security situation, but students from the school had been called in to take final exams in physics. According to the police, approximately 276 girls were abducted, of which a total of about 57 had escaped. On 17 October 2014, hopes were raised that the 219 remaining girls might soon be released after the army announced a truce between Boko Haram and government forces. This announcement also coincided with the six-month anniversary of the girls' capture. Hopes were however dashed when it was discovered that the supposed truce had been a hoax.