Borno Gov’t Releases Identities Of 53 Chibok Schoolgirls Who Escaped From Boko Haram

Four abducted students were reunited with their families in Chibok, Nigeria, last month. (Photo Credit: Credit Haruna Umar/Associated Pres)

The government of Borno state  said in a statement received Friday, May 9, 2014 that the 53 girls it identified by name include those who fled the day of the kidnap and those who escaped from the terrorists camps days later.

Chibok residents are staging a street protest Friday to press Borno’s government to do more to find the missing girls.

The 53 girls are part of the over 200 girls who were abducted from Government Secondary School, Chibok on April 14, 2014.

Some 276 girls remain missing, and U.S. and UK officials and agents have arrived Nigeria to help the Federal Government rescue the girls.

The special adviser to the President on media and publicity, Reuben Abati, said in a statement late Thursday that the president had met with the U.S. ambassador to discuss “the modalities for the actualization” of the U.S. offer of help.