Chibok girl who escaped Boko Haram abduction finds love, gets engaged to lover in the US

Chibok girl who escaped Boko Haram abduction finds love

Joy Bishara, one of the Chibok school girls who escaped the claws of Boko Haram has found love.

Daily Trust reported that Joy got engaged to her lover after many years in the United States of America.

It was noted that Bishara and her cousin, Lydia Pogu were among the many who escaped the attack that caught global attention.

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They soon relocated to the US and were under the care of Emmanuel Ogebe, a US-based human rights lawyer before the federal government took over.

Joy graduated from Southeastern University where she earned a degree in social work in 2021.

A total of 276 female students aged 16 to 18 were kidnapped by the terrorist group, Boko Haram.

The insurgents took these underaged girls from a Government Girls’ secondary school in Chibok, Borno state.

57 of the school girls escaped immediately following the incident by jumping off the trucks they were being transported with many still missing.

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Chibok Schoolgirl, Ruth reunites with family

Meanwhile, after seven years of being in Boko Haram captivity, Ruth Ngladar Pogu, one of the over 200 schoolgirls abducted seven years ago at a Government Secondary School in Chibok reunites with her mum.

Boko Haram attacked the school towards midnight on April 14, 2014, and abducted them.

Ruth, alongside someone she was said to have married during her captivity, surrendered to the Nigerian military on July 28, 2021, at a location in Bama.

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