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Army hands over rescued Chibok girl, three children to Borno govt

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The Nigerian Army handed over Lydia Simon, a rescued Chibok girl, and her three children to the Borno State Government for reunification with her family. Maj. Gen. Waidi Shuaibu, Theatre Commander of North East Joint Task Force Operation Hadin Kai, revealed this during a ceremony at Mailmalari Cantonment Maiduguri. Lydia Simon, who was six months pregnant at the time of her rescue, and her children were rescued by troops of the 82 Division Task Force Battalion in Ngoza LGA on April 17, 2024. Shuaibu noted that she was the 18th girl rescued by the Nigerian military among those abducted in 2014, a case that gained widespread national and international attention with the hashtag, Bring Back Our Girls.

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