President Buhari and the Chibok girls
The Federal Government, on Thursday, said some of the schoolgirls
released by Boko Haram militants over the weekend would need surgery for
various ailments, The Punch reports.
The Minister of Women Affairs and Social Development, Hajiya Jummai
Alhassan, who said this at a press conference in Abuja, stated that the
girls were undergoing treatment that would take a few weeks to
complete.
No fewer than 276 schoolgirls were abducted over three years ago,
while 82 were released after negotiations involving the Swiss
Government, the International Committee of the Red Cross and the Federal
Government on one side and the terror sect on the other.
Twenty-one of the girls were released in October 2016, but had yet to be reunited with their parents.