Work begins to rebuild Chibok girls’ school – FG

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Kidnapped Chibok schoolgirls still in captivity while FG rebuilds school

Kidnapped Chibok schoolgirls still in captivity while FG rebuilds school

Nigeria’s government on Friday said that work had begun to rebuild a school in the northeastern town of Chibok from where Boko Haram gunmen kidnapped more than 200 girls last year.

Finance minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala laid the foundation stone at the Government Secondary School on Thursday on behalf of President Goodluck Jonathan, a statement from her office said.

Islamist fighters seized 276 teenagers on the evening of April 14 in a case that caused global outrage. Fifty-seven managed to escape but 11 months later, 219 are still being held captive.

Jonathan said in the …Read More

Source:: PM Newspaper