Nigeria: Chibok - Seventy-Seven Days and Counting

April 14, 2014 has continued to hunt Nigeria and Nigerians like a nightmare. In the night of that day, over 200 secondary school girls who had gone to write their senior secondary school certificate examinations (SSCE) at the Government Secondary School Chibok, Borno State, were abducted by gunmen believed to be members of the Jama'atu Ahlis Sunna Lidda'awati Wal-Jihad otherwise known as Boko Haram were abducted.

Incidentally for many weeks after the abduction, the officials of the government doubted and debated whether the abduction was real, false or staged to disparage the President Goodluck Jonathan-led administration.

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