At least 62 of the nearly 200 schoolgirls who were still missing after a mass Boko Haram abduction in northeast Nigeria in 2014 have been freed, a government official has told Al Jazeera.

The girls were released on Saturday and were currently in Banki, close to the Nigerian-Cameroonian border, Al Jazeera's Ahmed Idris, reporting from Nigeria's capital, Abuja, said.

"We are told that 62 of the Chibok have been freed by Boko Haram," he said.

"According to sources, this may be as a result of negotiations - but there have also been some military operations of recent around that area, as well
as other parts of northeast Nigeria," Idris added.

Earlier reports had suggested that as many as 82 people had been released by Boko Haram.

The armed group seized 276 pupils from the Government Girls Secondary School in the town of Chibok on the night of April 14, 2014, with 57 of them managing to escape in the immediate aftermath of the abduction.

Some of the schoolgirls have since been released, while others managed to escape.

Before Saturday, 81, including 21 whose release was negotiated in October 2016, were free.

The abduction drew international attention to the armed group, while the Nigerian government's failure to act quickly to free the girls sparked a global Bring Back Our Girls movement.

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http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/05/62-chibok-schoolgirls-kidnapped-boko-haram-freed-170506192733108.html

Keep deceiving yourselves....

Good. Even SaharaReporters that broke the news have corrected their figure to 62.

APC magic, just to make the government look as if it's working, as it's two years anniversary draws near, they know where they kept the girls and will be bringing them out gradually just to score cheap political point.


Third to comment since I join nairaland

Ineffectual Buffoon you see your life, keep blaming international conspiracies for your woes.

Continue deceiving yourselves.....