BREAKING: FG extends search for Dapchi girls to neighbouring countries

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- The ongoing search for the missing 110 Dapchi girls kidnapped by Boko Haram terrorists has been extended to the neighbouring countries

- This was announced by the federal government today, Friday, March 2

- Some media reports had suggested that the girls have been ferried across Nigerian border by the terrorists

The ongoing search for the 110 girls who were abducted from the Government Girls Science and Technical College (GGSTC), Dapchi, Yobe state, has been extended to the neighbouring countries, the federal government has announced.

In a statement issued in Abuja on Friday, March 2, the minister of information and culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said top military and security officials on Thursday, March 1 travelled to the north-east to add more urgency to the search, which has now been extended beyond the north-east theatre.

Search for Dapchi girls extended to neighbouring countries - FG

The National Security Adviser and the Chief if Air Staff have since relocated to the northeast to supervise the search. Photo credit: NAF

The officials according to the statement , include the nation's top military officer and Chief of Defence Staff, Gen. Abayomi Olonisakin; Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete Ekwe Ibas; Chief of Army Staff; Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai and the Director-General of the Department of State Services, Alhaji Lawal Daura.

They joined the Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar, who had earlier relocated to the north-east, as well as the National Security Adviser (NSA), Maj.-Gen. Babagana Monguno (Rtd), who has also visited the theatre.

A report by a national newspaper last week had suggested that nearly half the girls abducted from their school in Yobe state have been ferried across the border into Niger Republic.

According to the report, the girls were split into two groups; one was left in an enclave in northern Borno state and the other taken to a village in Niger Republic.

Sources quoted in the report say the girls were abducted by the Musab Albarnawi faction of Boko Haram which is loyal to the Islamic State of West Africa.

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