Boko Haram: 48 missing school girls return as Buhari dispatches ministers to Yobe - Newspaper review

macfranc007 February 22, 2018 Nigeria News today & Breaking news ▷ Read Nigerian newspapers 24/7 Adeola Opeyemi

The main headlines of the mainstream Nigerian newspapers for Thursday, February 22, are focused on the abduction of about 94 secondary school girls from Yobe state and the rescue of 48 girls out of 94 by the Nigeria army.

This Day reports that Forty-eight of the 94 girls declared missing on Tuesday after a Monday evening Boko Haram attack on Government Girls Science Technical College, Dapchi, Yobe state, have returned to the school, the state commissioner for education, Alhaji Mohammed Lamin, said on Wednesday.

This Day Newspaper

The Nation reports that the school was attacked on Monday night by the terrorists, who took away some of the girls. The state government put the figure of the girls that were missing at 50.

A statement last night by Abdullahi Bego, Spokesman to Governor Ibrahim Gaidam, said: “The Yobe state government hereby informs the public that some of the girls at Government Girls Science Technical College (GGSTC) whose school was attacked by Boko Haram terrorists last Monday have been rescued by gallant officers and men of the Nigerian Army from the terrorists who abducted them."

The Nation Newspaper

The Punch reports that President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday directed the military and other security agencies to immediately take charge of Government Girls Technical College, Dapchi.

The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, stated this while briefing State House correspondents at the end of the weekly meeting of the Federal Executive Council at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

Mohammed said the President gave the directive immediately after he was informed of the development.

The Punch Newspaper

Vanguard reports that the state government has closed down the school for one week to enable students recover from the trauma they went through during the invasion by the insurgents.

Leader of Yobe state delegation to the institution and Permanent Secretary, Yobe state Ministry of Education, Alhaji Modu Ma’aji Ajiri, announced the closure while addressing the students who returned from their hideout in the morning after the attack.

The permanent secretary said the closure of the school was to enable the students return home and reunite with their families after the horrible experience.

Vanguard Newspaper

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The Guardian reports that the crisis in the Senate over the order of next year’s general elections took a new twist yesterday as the Northern Senators’ Forum announced the removal of its chairman, Senator Abdullahi Adamu (APC, Nasarawa).

Former Sokoto state governor, Senator Aliu Wammako (Sokoto North), was immediately announced as a replacement.

Adamu’s removal was hinged on an alleged mismanagement of N70 million handed to him by the forum’s former leadership under the seventh Senate.