The success of the Chibok abduction emboldened other terror groups to target schools and kidnap students.

In the wee hours of 14 April 2014, Boko Haram seized 276 girls from their dormitories in Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok Local Government Area of Borno State. While 128 regained freedom in batches over nine years, the whereabouts of 91 others remain unknown.

The abduction which made global headlines and birthed an international movement — #BringBackOurGirls — brought the group, led by the late Abubakar Shekau into the limelight.

Some of the girls were forced to marry insurgents and those who refused to comply were subjected to excruciating hardship.

Analysts believe the politicisation of the kidnap by the Goodluck Jonathan administration and refusal to allow foreign forces and mercenaries to assist in rescuing the captives worsened the matter. They also argued that the success of the Chibok abduction emboldened other terror groups to target schools and kidnap students. PREMIUM TIMES has documented over 10 mass abductions of students in different northern states since the Chibok incident. Rescued or escaped in batches

The Murtala Muhammed Foundation, in its recent report, detailed how many of the Chibok girls regained their freedom between 2014 and 2023.

While the students were being transported into Sambisa forest in a truck, 57 of them jumped off the truck, leaving 219 onboard.