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EiE Nigeria Weekly Update Tuesday, April 9, 2019 (#BBOG at 5)
We are still missing!
“The extremists are afraid of books and pens.The power of education frightens them. They are afraid of women.The power of the voice of women frightens them.”
- Malala Yousafzai (Pakistan Activist for Female Education)
Sunday, April 14th
marks
5 years
since the abduction of
276 #ChibokGirls.
So far, 164 girls have either escaped, were released or found. However,
112 #ChibokGirls
still remain in captivity.
The federal government did not learn from the abduction of the #ChibokGirls.
Monday, February 19, 2018,
111 secondary school girls, one primary school girl and boy were abducted from Government Girls Science & Technical College, Dapchi, Yobe State by a splinter group of Boko Haram. 31 days after, 5 died in captivity, 106 of the girls and the boy were released.
Leah Sharibu
remain in custody because she refused to renounce her faith.
On March 1, 2018, Saifura Ahmed & Hauwa Liman (Red Cross) were abducted and later executed while United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) worker,
Alice Ngaddah
is still in captivity.
JOIN THE GLOBAL ACTION!
The EiE Nigeria Team