The Minister of Education, Mallam Ibrahim Shekarau, said on Monday that the May/June 2014 West African Senior School Certificate Examination results of the abducted Chibok schoolgirls were ready. The over 200 girls were abducted in April when members of the Boko Haram sect invaded the Government Secondary School, Chibok in Borno State.
Their whereabouts remain unknown over 150 days after the sad incident. The students were taking their examinations when the sect members interrupted the exercise.
Shekarau, who appeared before the House of Representatives Committee on Education in Abuja, informed the lawmakers that the Ministry of Education was reviewing the results.
He stated that the review was necessary because the examinations became “haphazard” as a result of the abduction. He was responding to a question by a member of the committee, who sought to know the fate of the girls.
The minister, who assured the committee that the Federal Government had not lost hope in its bid to secure the release of the girls, added that efforts were also being made to improve on girl child education generally in the North-East zone.
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