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Re: Rescued Chibok Girl, Blessing, Speaks At Trade & Investment Meeting, USA (Pics) by HopeAlive14(m): 11:28am On Oct 31, 2016
God can turn your misfortune into a fortune!

Boko Haram said there is a casting down

But God said there is a lifting up!
Re: Rescued Chibok Girl, Blessing, Speaks At Trade & Investment Meeting, USA (Pics) by Livefreeordieha(m): 11:28am On Oct 31, 2016
nnaa mehn see script like joseph and the brothers...so dem kidnap to sambisa later international speaker...?na waooo never knew blessing was a predominant name in chibok village though..new trend all assaulted ,kidnapped and rescue girls bear name BLESSING..IN BTW where are those people who wants the god of e-money to be their godu can try the god of all this blessings oooo if the god of e-money is dulling or stuck in traffic..because the gods of all this blessings performs wonders as u all can see..he allows them to be abducted,supposedly suffering for 2yrs then allows them to be rescued straight to us and FAME.
sixtuschimere:
According to Queen Blessing who shared the story,her son Prince Ansel received an CANAN award from VP Osinbajo at 8th Industry,Trade and Investment meeting,Houston,USA.Ansel who received an award for excellence and distinction along with other distinguished Nigerian Americans including the Nigerian Surgeon Dr. Oluyinka Olutoye who performed miraculous surgery: removing a baby from mother's womb and operating on tumors and returning the baby back dedicated the award to Nigerian missing Chibok girls.Also present at the event was one of the rescued missing Chibok girls Blessing who was pictured speaking at the event.Queen Blessing wrote......


'A day with the Vice-President of Nigeria. A hearty congratulations to my blessed son, my Prince Ansel Ahabue-Itua for receiving the CANAN award from the Vice-President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo. Ansel received the award for excellence and distinction along with other distinguished Nigerian Americans including the Nigerian Surgeon who performed miraculous surgeries...removing a baby from mother's womb and operating on tumors and returning the baby back. Ansel once dedicated his all star win award to the Nigerian missing girls. Now he was delighted to meeting one of the rescued girls whose name is Blessing. My Prince Ansel, you are supremely Blessed. May God continues to let your bright star shine worldwide in Jesus name,  Amen! Thank God for yet another blessing'

Source: http://www.trezzyhelm.com/2016/10/one-of-rescued-missing-chibok-girls.html?m=1

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Re: Rescued Chibok Girl, Blessing, Speaks At Trade & Investment Meeting, USA (Pics) by drsugar: 11:28am On Oct 31, 2016
Stupid Nigerian leadership. Going to the US to give award to Nigerians. Imagine Joe Biden US VP coming to Nigeria to give award to Americans to also fly down to receive award.

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Re: Rescued Chibok Girl, Blessing, Speaks At Trade & Investment Meeting, USA (Pics) by Gten(m): 11:29am On Oct 31, 2016
First foreign trip by our domestic vice president. Congrats!

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Re: Rescued Chibok Girl, Blessing, Speaks At Trade & Investment Meeting, USA (Pics) by Sijo01(f): 11:29am On Oct 31, 2016
Can we have a copy of her speech please?

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Re: Rescued Chibok Girl, Blessing, Speaks At Trade & Investment Meeting, USA (Pics) by slimkiss(m): 11:30am On Oct 31, 2016
Nigeria na malaria
Re: Rescued Chibok Girl, Blessing, Speaks At Trade & Investment Meeting, USA (Pics) by adconline(m): 11:36am On Oct 31, 2016
Houston welcome or welcomes VP?
Re: Rescued Chibok Girl, Blessing, Speaks At Trade & Investment Meeting, USA (Pics) by Siscooh: 11:37am On Oct 31, 2016
How that girl will Struggle to unwind in the future when she meets Jesus! Because she knows that the story is somehow!

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Re: Rescued Chibok Girl, Blessing, Speaks At Trade & Investment Meeting, USA (Pics) by Nobody: 11:39am On Oct 31, 2016
tritt:
Did even see there interview on TV ab iu no get TV for house?
I don't know what you're talking about, but as long as she was writing waec, English should not be too hard for her to speak.
Re: Rescued Chibok Girl, Blessing, Speaks At Trade & Investment Meeting, USA (Pics) by gustav25: 11:45am On Oct 31, 2016
This country have really screwed my brain ....I thought the girls were unable to express themselves in English but here she is addressing a gathering ? What is all this na !!!

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Re: Rescued Chibok Girl, Blessing, Speaks At Trade & Investment Meeting, USA (Pics) by klax(m): 11:47am On Oct 31, 2016
Pls nothing like chibok girls anywhere I don't buy it again. There is no way someone will be in desert under captivity and looking so well fed the way they look.

Beside is it the same boko haram that sat with whoever or spoke with whoever and agreed to released the girls are same boko haram killing for the past few days now or a new ghost boko haram

Buhari and APC has something to tell Nigerians we can't be looking and just accept this lies and fake celebration. I don't buy it a bit.

Who fed them all this while in the bush if shekaua can single ha xedly handedly fed these much girls and his boys then he must ensure a millionaire.

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Re: Rescued Chibok Girl, Blessing, Speaks At Trade & Investment Meeting, USA (Pics) by HabaSeun: 11:51am On Oct 31, 2016
Its now obvious that USA connived with apc to kidnap these girls.

Not a single interview from any local press. And they girls have been quickly shipped to US to forestall any of that.

One day the truth will b exposed.

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Re: Rescued Chibok Girl, Blessing, Speaks At Trade & Investment Meeting, USA (Pics) by efe7104: 11:52am On Oct 31, 2016
did I just hear someone say nothing like chibok girls??..all the ones reuniting with their families where re they coming from
Re: Rescued Chibok Girl, Blessing, Speaks At Trade & Investment Meeting, USA (Pics) by gbengaizzHe: 11:52am On Oct 31, 2016
Wait ooo.. aw old be the girl? Na her son be that? When she born? She be dey write waec when they kidnapp am na. The story dey one kain

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Re: Rescued Chibok Girl, Blessing, Speaks At Trade & Investment Meeting, USA (Pics) by Angelahoney: 11:53am On Oct 31, 2016
kingmekus:
The poster above me is a PDP member!! But why e come be say na only one chibok girl waka come?? the others were not informed too??And the girl is also speaking good English... seems Harvard University has a campus in sambisa.... DIARISGODoOOo

grin grin.
What did she speak about ? Did she come with her parents or she came alone ?
Re: Rescued Chibok Girl, Blessing, Speaks At Trade & Investment Meeting, USA (Pics) by Angelahoney: 11:56am On Oct 31, 2016
gbengaizzHe:
Wait ooo.. aw old be the girl? Na her son be that? When she born? She be dey write waec when they kidnapp am na. The story dey one kain

And they said none of the girl was molested . Are they trying to tell us it was consensual.
Re: Rescued Chibok Girl, Blessing, Speaks At Trade & Investment Meeting, USA (Pics) by cheekyleggy: 12:09pm On Oct 31, 2016
Osinbajo jumping from one christian meeting to another.
Re: Rescued Chibok Girl, Blessing, Speaks At Trade & Investment Meeting, USA (Pics) by Coldfeet(f): 12:21pm On Oct 31, 2016
AnonyNymous:

I don't know what you're talking about, but as long as she was writing waec, English should not be too hard for her to speak.
Your statement buttresses what every right thinking Nigerian has been complaining about, how can a supposedly waec candidate sitting for physics exams not be able to communicate in English language? If you watch the girls interview none of them conversed in ENGLISH!!! there were speaking only Hausa and had an interpreter. Now I hope you've gotten a clear picture why the people you quoted were asking those questions.

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Re: Rescued Chibok Girl, Blessing, Speaks At Trade & Investment Meeting, USA (Pics) by boboenny: 12:31pm On Oct 31, 2016
if from sambisa forest to stardom is as this easy, abeg make bokoharam kuku kidnap everybody and lock us for inside sambisa forest o. a kidnapped girl receiving recognition in a white man land with polished English. abeg, do they have 'sambisa university of transformed english'? I wan apply for ph.d. lolz

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Re: Rescued Chibok Girl, Blessing, Speaks At Trade & Investment Meeting, USA (Pics) by rickyrex(m): 12:35pm On Oct 31, 2016
Coldfeet:
Hmmm oh really? In Nigeria they are dressed in Ankara with shawl looking ordinary with no makeup and speaking only in Hausa with interpreter. Now here she is all looking glam and well made up? Speaking English undecided
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!!!!!!!!!

Anyways Congratulations Mr Ansel and other recipients.

God bless your reasoning bro

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Re: Rescued Chibok Girl, Blessing, Speaks At Trade & Investment Meeting, USA (Pics) by Nobody: 12:38pm On Oct 31, 2016
VeniceTown:
Trade and investment and we are talking chibok girls. ? This country. Nothing we will do straight. Okay what did she say ?
She told them the skills and acquisition that she and her colleagues was taught in sambisa by BH. Skills like girls suicide bombers, how to learn English and linguistics in sambisa, how to cook for Nigerians the same way BH was cooked for, etc

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Re: Rescued Chibok Girl, Blessing, Speaks At Trade & Investment Meeting, USA (Pics) by ImperialYoruba: 12:49pm On Oct 31, 2016
Now im confused!
I thought Blessing is a teenager. She had a child that big already? She must be responding well to rehabilitation, looks beautiful. God bless her.

Ok, who is this fine mama jamma in yellow grin.
I like her dimensions, got all the right curves in the right place. wink
Re: Rescued Chibok Girl, Blessing, Speaks At Trade & Investment Meeting, USA (Pics) by systemz(m): 12:54pm On Oct 31, 2016
Una get who to deceive.
Re: Rescued Chibok Girl, Blessing, Speaks At Trade & Investment Meeting, USA (Pics) by iamprinceyice: 1:13pm On Oct 31, 2016
Chibok girls now international babes hahah APC change no issoryt abeg tmao ftc na chiboks girls graduated from havard university ..in wizkids voice::from chibok to sambisa now na we de make havard de catch fire boko haram don chop us tire apc de lie wea make we dey go thank God say God no be mannnnnnn now de money:: abeg complete am

Re: Rescued Chibok Girl, Blessing, Speaks At Trade & Investment Meeting, USA (Pics) by Nobody: 1:31pm On Oct 31, 2016
Coldfeet:
Your statement buttresses what every right thinking Nigerian has been complaining about, how can a supposedly waec candidate sitting for physics exams not be able to communicate in English language? If you watch the girls interview none of them conversed in ENGLISH!!! there were speaking only Hausa and had an interpreter. Now I hope you've gotten a clear picture why the people you quoted were asking those questions.
Hmm, interesting. . . I haven't seen the interview yet though
Re: Rescued Chibok Girl, Blessing, Speaks At Trade & Investment Meeting, USA (Pics) by 4peace(m): 1:31pm On Oct 31, 2016
Wisdom,Knowledge and Understanding.
Re: Rescued Chibok Girl, Blessing, Speaks At Trade & Investment Meeting, USA (Pics) by gaelllic: 1:32pm On Oct 31, 2016
From the look of things,

Sambisa is some kind of modelling agency.

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Re: Rescued Chibok Girl, Blessing, Speaks At Trade & Investment Meeting, USA (Pics) by bigdaddygeee(m): 1:43pm On Oct 31, 2016
Nhaaaaa whaaaaaa ooooooo! When will we ever be straight in Naija
Re: Rescued Chibok Girl, Blessing, Speaks At Trade & Investment Meeting, USA (Pics) by Geeoriginal: 2:13pm On Oct 31, 2016
Let us look at things with positive mind at least some of the time. The woman that posted the story made it look confusing. But, she - Queen Blessing has a son who is Anslem that is a CANAN awardee on this occasion in Houston. Present at the occasion is Blessing, one of the ESCAPED not rescued Chibok girl. Blessing has been in the US school for the past 2years. She is one of the ladies that escaped immediately following the kidnapping incident. I know there are 3 of them being sponsored by an American NGO, they have been living in the US since then. I hope this clarify things a little.

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Re: Rescued Chibok Girl, Blessing, Speaks At Trade & Investment Meeting, USA (Pics) by naptu2: 2:20pm On Oct 31, 2016
AnonyNymous:

Hmm, interesting. . . I haven't seen the interview yet though

I watched it on the news yesterday night. That's one of the Chibok girls that escaped. Remember that they were given scholarships in the US in 2014. She has been based in the US since then.

There's even an old Nairaland thread about a documentary that an american did in 2014 or 2015. The american interviewed them to find out how they were setting down in the US. I'm still searching for the thread about the documentary, but this is the thread about the scholarship.

https://www.nairaland.com/1872318/57-escaped-chibok-girls-gain

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Re: Rescued Chibok Girl, Blessing, Speaks At Trade & Investment Meeting, USA (Pics) by naptu2: 2:43pm On Oct 31, 2016
AnonyNymous:

Hmm, interesting. . . I haven't seen the interview yet though

[size=14pt]Nigeria's Chibok Girls Find New Start In US[/size]
by simongonner(m): 9:55am On Aug 31, 2015

simongonner:
WASHINGTON — Lily had sworn never to go back to school. After being kidnapped from her high school in Chibok, Nigeria, by armed group Boko Haram, the 18-year-old planned to leave education behind and do what her family had been doing for generations —
farming. School was not safe any more.

Boko Haram kidnapped Lily and 275 other
schoolgirls one night in April 2014. In a
remote town in northeastern Nigeria, the
radical fighters grabbed Lily and the others as they slept inside the local high school’s
dormitory. They stuffed them into trucks and drove off into the night with a convoy of
squealing, terrified high school students.
Lily said her heart was pounding, and she
closed her eyes and prayed. Hours after her
capture, she found the courage to jump out of the moving truck; a friend followed her. She ran through the bushes in the middle of the night, and made her way back home.
After that, she resolved never to return to
school.

The mass kidnapping of almost 300 Nigerian girls captured the world’s attention. Boko Haram had rampaged across northeastern Nigeria for five years, but the Chibok kidnapping gained the group worldwide infamy and revulsion. Boko Haram, a phrase that loosely translates as “Western education is forbidden,” aims to a government rule by an extreme interpretation of Shariah law.

Since 2009, the group has spilled blood across the region, bombing, looting and kidnapping. Activists in Nigeria birthed the Bring Back Our Girls campaign, demanding the Nigerian government to find the schoolgirls who were still missing. Only 57 of the girls had escaped, and they did so with no help from the Nigerian government.

The likes of First Lady Michelle Obama,
celebrity TV personality Ellen DeGeneres, and Pakistani education activist Malala Yousafzai carried signs marked #BringBackOurGirls.

Meanwhile, Emmanuel Ogebe, a U.S.-based
Nigerian human rights lawyer collaborated
with a couple in Nigeria to help bring some
Chibok schoolgirls who had escaped from
Boko Haram to the United States.

“Schooling is an incredibly high-risk activity in northern Nigeria,” Ogebe said, explaining that girls freed from Boko Haram captivity could face security risks, survivors’ guilt and
discrimination from their community.

“Most had been stigmatized as a ‘Boko
Haram’ wife, which further traumatized them,” Ogebe said.

Lily was made fun of after her escape; leaving Nigeria offered her a chance to change the course of her life.
Lily and nine other girls arrived in the U.S.
last year, between July and December.
The three Nigerian activists, who later formed Education Must Continue Initiative, helped them obtain U.S. visas so they could attend
reputable private schools that offered
scholarships for them. Initially they attended
two different schools, with some of the girls
on the West Coast, but now all are attending
the same school in Virginia.
Lily was back in school.
“I know I said I would never go to school
again but things have changed,” Lily said with
a smile. “I am in America!”
The girls recently went back to class after a
summer break that included trips to the White
House, museum and a national tour with a
church choir. Host families housed the girls
during the summer vacation.
Murna, 19, discovered she has motion
sickness and cannot sit in a car for long. Lily
has not acquired a taste for American food.
Sometimes, Lily’s mind wanders to Nigeria, to
Chibok, to Boko Haram, to her best friend
Dorcas, who was abducted with her and is
presumably still in the clutches of Boko
Haram members. Dorcas and Lily grew up
together as neighbors.
“She is still inside Sambisa,” Lily says. “I miss
her so much. She is a very good person.”
Sambisa Forest, a 40,000 square-mile stretch
of nature reserve in northeastern Nigeria, is
believed to be Boko Haram’ main hide out .
Many believe it’s where the 219 Chibok
schoolgirls still missing are being held. More
than 700 captives have been freed from Boko
Haram, according to the Nigerian military.
Amnesty International estimates that Boko
Haram has abducted more than 2,000 people,
mostly women.
The group has formed an official alliance with
the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL,
also known as ISIS), calling itself the Islamic
State West African province.
Murna, 17, says she used to have nightmares
about Boko Haram.
“I had a dream that Boko Haram came to
America on a plane and entered into the
house to kidnap us and take us back to
Nigeria,” she said. Murna, a tall and animated
teenager, said she had several similar
nightmares and is only recently beginning to
cope with the trauma she endured.
Murna often spends her time braiding
extensions into her hair. Lily and Lovely, 18,
like to sit together and watch Nigerian movies
on the iPads they borrowed from their school.
They are acquiring new skills: learning to play
violin, becoming tech-savvy and logging into
Skype to video chat with friends, improving
their use of American English.
“These young ladies immediately impress with
their effervescent personalities and sweet
dispositions. After simply giving them a ride
in the car, they thanked me,” says Deanna
Gelak, an education specialist who is hosting
one of the girls. Gelak describes them as
young ladies with a “special grace, good
nature and wit.”
Lily, Lovely and Murna do not yet know what
the future holds for them. They think often
about their friends and families they left
behind in Nigeria, but are uncertain of
returning to live in their home country.
Lily watches a video message from her
parents, sent to her via Facebook. She listens
to her mother pray for her in her native Kibaku
language. The sight of her elderly, white-
haired father makes her cry. She turns her
head away and sniffles. When asked what her
mother said in the video, Lily says, “She told
me that Boko Haram came to attack Chibok
again but that I should not worry. They are
fine.”
Murna prays every day for the safety of her
father who is a police officer in northeastern
Nigeria. Lovely’s father was recently killed by
Boko Haram. She was not able to attend his
funeral.
The girls sometimes feel they are too distant
from their loved ones. But, they are carving
new relationships in the United States.
Inspired by Ogebe, the Nigerian lawyer who
helped bring them to the United States, Lily
and Lovely have decided to become lawyers.
Murna wants to be the first medical doctor in
her family. They all hope for a Nigeria free
from Boko Haram, where all girls will feel safe
enough to go to school. http://www.america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/8/30/nigerias-chibok-girls-find-new-start-in-us.html

https://www.nairaland.com/2565560/nigerias-chibok-girls-find-new
Re: Rescued Chibok Girl, Blessing, Speaks At Trade & Investment Meeting, USA (Pics) by richard1994(m): 3:01pm On Oct 31, 2016
president way they fly for air

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