Eleven years after Boko Haram kidnapped 276 Chibok schoolgirls in Borno State, Global Rights Nigeria and former Minister of Education, Oby Ezekwesili, yesterday charged the Federal Government to rescue the remaining 91 still in captivity.
They also urged Nigerians to demand an end to terrorism from President Bola Tinubu’s administration. Global Rights Nigeria reminded the Tinubu administration that April 14, 2025, marked 11 years since their adoption in 2014 from their school dormitories. It said they should not be forgotten but that efforts should be intensified to rescue the remaining 91.
The Executive Director of Right Group, Abiodun Baiyewu, said: “Eleven years later, at least 91 of these 276 girls remain unaccounted for. Many were forcefully married to their captors; some died, and the insecurity that had marked North-East Nigeria has spread across the North-West and North-Central of the country. The South-East and South-South have also not been spared.”
It lamented that nothing has changed in the past 11 years. He recalled that following the incident in 2015, the government, supported by international partners, pledged to invest $20 million to secure schools in Nigeria, stressing that despite promising a more secure future for Nigerian children, it was stalled for many years.
In her remarks, Ezekwesili charged Nigerians to demand an end to what she described as a terrorist-infested nation from the Tinubu government. She made the call while reminding the Nigerian government that 78 Chibok girls were still unaccounted for since they were abducted in 2014.
She wrote: “We remind @officialABAT that 78 daughters of Nigeria are still unaccounted for following the April 14, 2014, abduction of 219 students from their school hostel in Chibok, Borno State.
“We @BBOG_Nigeria marched and stood every day for six years at the Unity Fountain Abuja and, weekly, at Ikoyi Roundabout in Lagos from April 2014 to March 2020, when the Government of Nigeria imposed COVID lockdown restrictions. Since 2014, 141 Chibok girls are back, but 78 are still unaccounted for by the @NigeriaGov.
