The parents of the abducted girls had pulled out of a hurriedly convened meeting with the president last week, saying that any such meeting needed to be properly planned to accommodate all stakeholders.
President Jonathan meets some of the Chibok GirlsPresident Goodluck Jonathan is meeting with 51 Chibok schoolgirls in Abuja at this hour; the same girls who escaped from their abductors days after the extremist sect, Boko Haram, stole them from their school dormitory, according to a report in the Premium Times.
President Jonathan, Senator David Mark, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, and other notable figures at the meeting with the escaped Chibok girls
The escaped Chibok girls arrive at the meeting with President Jonathan
The parents of the girls as well as service chiefs, President of the Senate, David Mark, Governors Kashim Shettima of Borno and Isa Yuguda of BauchAlso are at the closed-door meeting holding at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Members of the Federal Executive Council are also in attendance.
President Jonathan meets with the mothers of the Chibok girls
The meeting, coming about 100 days after the girls and their over 200 colleagues were abducted, is in fulfilment of a promise President Jonathan made to Pakistani teenage girls’ education activist, Malala Yousafzai, during her advocacy visit to Nigeria last week.
Malala had extracted a promise from Mr. Jonathan to meet and support the girls who escaped from their captors and intensify efforts at rescuing the ones still being held.
President Jonathan meets the fathers of the Chibok girls
Visibly emotional parents of the Chibok Girls at the meeting with President Jonathan
President Jonathan poses for a photograph with a group of the Chibok Girls
The mothers of the Chibok Girls at a meeting with the President
The parents of the abducted girls had pulled out of a hurriedly convened meeting with the president last week, saying that any such meeting needed to be properly planned to accommodate all stakeholders.
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