President Buhari receives the 82 released Chibok girls in Presidential Villa, Abuja. ~ All Trendies

President Buhari receives the 82 released Chibok girls in Presidential Villa, Abuja.

82 Chibok girls who were released by the Boko Haram sect on Saturday have been subsequently flown to the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, where they were received by President Buhari at his official residence at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

The Presidency had on Saturday said security agencies took back the 82 freed Chibok girls, in exchange for some Boko Haram suspects held by the authorities.

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.

The 82 girls are believed to be among the 276 girls, ages 16 to 18, forced from their beds by Boko Haram militants in the middle of the night in April 2014. The kidnapping from a boarding school in the town of Chibok sparked global outrage and the social media movement #BringBackOurGirls.

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