{"id":257793,"date":"2016-10-13T11:02:05","date_gmt":"2016-10-13T11:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=257793"},"modified":"2016-10-13T11:02:05","modified_gmt":"2016-10-13T11:02:05","slug":"group-of-chibok-girls-freed-in-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=257793","title":{"rendered":"Group of Chibok girls freed in Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">Twenty-one of the schoolgirls kidnapped in 2014 by Boko Haram in Chibok, Nigeria, have been freed, the president&#8217;s spokesman has confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>Garba Shehu said the release was &#8220;the outcome of negotiations between the administration and Islamist militants&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The freed students are currently with the security forces.<\/p>\n<p>Boko Haram kidnapped more than 270 students from a school in Chibok, north-east Nigeria &#8211; an act that provoked international condemnation.<\/p>\n<p>It also sparked one of the biggest global social media campaigns, with tweeters using the hashtag #BringBackOurGirls.<\/p>\n<p>Up to now there had only been one confirmed release of a student kidnapped from Chibok.<\/p>\n<p>In May, <a class=\"story-body__link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-africa-36321249\">a 19-year-old woman was found<\/a> by an army-backed vigilante group.<\/p>\n<p>After that it was believed that 218 students were still missing. More than 50 managed to escape on the day they were captured.<\/p>\n<p>Boko Haram has also kidnapped thousands of other people during its seven-year insurgency in north-east Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty-one of the schoolgirls kidnapped in 2014 by Boko Haram in Chibok, Nigeria, have been freed, the president&#8217;s spokesman has confirmed. Garba Shehu said the release was &#8220;the outcome of negotiations between the administration and Islamist militants&#8221;. The freed students are currently with the security forces. Boko Haram kidnapped more than 270 students from a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":216169,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[12601,5225,6866,12602,751,7763],"class_list":["post-257793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","tag-bringbackourgirls","tag-boko-haram","tag-chibok-girls","tag-kidnapped-girl","tag-nigeria","tag-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=257793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/216169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=257793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=257793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=257793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}