*Release confirmed by FG

Boko Haram insurgents have reportedly released additional 82 girls of the Chibok schoolgirls abducted in April 2014.

On the night of 14–15 April 2014, 276 female students were kidnapped from the Government Secondary School in the town of Chibok in Borno State, Nigeria.

Responsibility for the kidnappings was claimed by Boko Haram, a terrorist organization based in Northeastern Nigeria.  Sooner after the abduction, 57 of the schoolgirls managed to escape.

In May 2016, one of the missing girls, Amina Ali, was found. She claimed that the remaining girls were still there, but that six had died. A second girl was discovered later in the week.

A further 21 girls were freed in October 2016, while another was rescued the next month. Another was found in January 2017.

In the meantime, Special Adviser on Media to the Minister of Information and Culture, Mr. Segun Adeyemi , Saturday evening confirmed on his Facebook page that, “82 Chibok Girls are free.”

The 82 are of the remaining 195 girls in Boko Haram’s captivity.

There were no details about how they were release as at press time.

In the meantime, The DEFENDER gathered last night that jubilations had sparked off in the Chibok community on hearing the news of the new release.