25th April 2023
File: The abducted Chibok girls
Two among the remaining 98 Chibok school girls have escaped from their captors in the Sambisa forest in Borno State.
Sources who spoke with Daily Trust said that the escape was a result of intense military operations in the forest.
Meanwhile, a security source identified the escapees as Hauwa Mutah and Esther Markus.
The source said, “One is from Chibok and the other one from Dzilang village,” he said.
This has reduced the number of Chibok schoolgirls in captivity from 98 to 96.
Editor’s Note
In our post on February 19, 2023, in a story ‘Woman burns self to death over failure to offset N70,000 loan’, we reported that a middle-aged woman, simply known as Mama Dada, set herself ablaze over her inability to pay back a loan of N70,000 she reportedly took from a microfinance bank, LAPO. We have since discovered that the microfinance bank referred to in the story was not LAPO Microfinance Bank Limited. We apologise to the LAPO Group for the error in the identification of the name of the said microfinance bank where the deceased took the loan. The mix-up in the name of the MFB is not deliberate.
