Mother of one of the girls dies of heart attack.
#BringBackOurGirls Response to Defence Headquaters Press Statement Released Friday 9 May at 9 a.m. The attention of the leadership of the #BringBackOurGirls Movement has been drawn to a statement by the Director of Defence Information of the Defence Headquarters on the constructive engagement between the DHQ and the Coalition of Civil Society Groups on Tuesday […]
The NSA, IG Police, Service Chiefs visit Chibok
Boko Haram’s leader Abubakar Shekau says in a video that his group carried out the mass abduction and vows to sell the girls as slave brides.
In line with our aim to ensure the safe return of all 223 abducted girls from Chibok Local Government, Borno State, the #BringBackOurGirls team has scheduled a meeting with the Chief of Defense Staff. This meeting is slated to hold at the Old Parade Ground, Area 10, Abuja by 3pm on Tuesday, 6th May, 2014. […]
Hundreds of parents, many dressed in red, protest in Chibok to demand help from the government and other countries
By April 24, #BringBackOurGirls was trending on Twitter. Parents of the missing girls and other Nigerians were seeking international attention to put pressure on their own government to do something for the girls. As of May 7, the hashtag had been used more than 1.5 million times on Read more | Audio
Two days after the kidnapping, the Nigerian military issued a statement that almost all of the girls, then estimated at over 100, had been freed. The next day, the military retracted their claim. The numbers were sketchy at first, and remain uncertain but, after nearly a month, most reports say that 276 girls remain in […]
Lagos branch of Nigerian Union of Teachers protest girls abduction.
Abuja family of #BringBackOurGirls hold a vigil to mark one month of abduction.