Is it Eureka? Army may have found 200 Chibok girls

The Nigerian Defence headquarters just announced on tweeter that it has rescued about 200 girls and 93 women from the Sambisa forest, stronghold of the Boko Haram terrorist sect.

Although it is yet to ascertain if they are part of the schoolgirls kidnapped from a secondary school in Chibok, Borno State in April 2014, it however stated that they were being screened and profiled.

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