By our reporter 13.2.2026
As the 12th anniversary of the kidnaping of 276 Government Girls Secondary School in Chibok in Borno State approaches, first lady Oluremi Tinubu claimed that some of the remaining girls who fell in love with their adaptors refused to go back home to their parents.
In 2014 Boko Haram fighters audaciously invaded the Chibok Girls Secondary School in Borno and made away with 276 girls. 189 girls regained their freedom; some came back with babies they had with the Boko Haram elements.
While speaking during her recent visit to the USA, Mrs. Tinubu claimed that the 90 other girls are still in the enclave of the Boko Haram insurgents because “fell in love with their abductors.”
Mrs Tinubu, in a report by The Free Press published on Thursday, said the government was still making efforts to rescue the remaining girls.
“Even those girls kidnapped during Chibok, they are still trying to rescue them,” Mrs Tinubu said, “until they learned recently that most of them fell in love with their abductors, so that’s quite difficult. You know, they refuse to come back.”
Last year, the national coordinator of the National Counter Terrorism Centre, Office of the National Security Adviser (NCTC-ONSA), Major-Gen. Adamu Laka, said the federal government and security forces had not given up hope of securing the release of the Chibok girls.
“We have not given up hope on them; some of them were married to some of the insurgents. Some have come out. But let our focus not only on the Chibok girls because there are others that have been kidnapped,” Mr Laka partly said while briefing journalists.