Twelve years after more than 270 schoolgirls were tragically abducted from Government Girls Secondary School in Chibok, Southern Borno, Northeastern Nigeria, a survivor has poignantly remarked, “Until Leah Sharibu and all of my 82 sisters are accounted for, our story remains unfinished.”
Yesterday, 9 May 2026, 12 survivors of the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapping officially graduated from the American University of Nigeria (AUN) in Yola, Adamawa State, twelve years after their initial abduction by Boko Haram.
12 years after the abduction of 276 Chibok schoolgirls, with over 90 still missing, leaders in the Southern Borno community have decried that their community is being attacked every week, calling for urgent intervention.
To mark the 12th anniversary of the tragic mass abduction of 276 schoolgirls from Chibok town in Southern Borno by Boko Haram terrorists, one of the survivors has undertaken hashtag activism, describing the experience as “trauma to triumph.”
