President Goodluck Jonathan finally meet with the parents of 51 Chibok schoolgirls in Abuja at this hour; the same girls who escaped from their abductors days after the extremist sect, Boko Haram, stole them from their school dormitory,
The parents of the girls as well as service chiefs, President of the Senate, David Mark, Governors Kashim Shettima of Borno and Isa Yuguda of BauchAlso are at the closed-door meeting holding at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Members of the Federal Executive Council are also in attendance.
President Jonathan meets with the mothers of the Chibok girls
The meeting, coming about 100 days after the girls and their over 200 colleagues were abducted, is in fulfilment of a promise President Jonathan made to Pakistani teenage girls’ education activist, Malala Yousafzai, during her advocacy visit to Nigeria last week.