The local government of Chibok, Borno State, is now participating in the West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WAEC) for the first time in 6 years.

 

  Borno municipal administration is now taking the exam after over 200 schoolgirls were kidnapped by insurgents from Boko Haram in the region on April 14, 2014. After the kidnapping of the school girls, the federal government closed schools in the region.

 

  The 7th Division of the Nigerian Army confirmed the reopening of schools in the local government and it was further learned that the Chibok State Girls' Secondary School was being converted into a mixed school.

 

  Abdul-Khalifa Ibrahim, acting commanding officer general (GOC), Division 7, represented by Ifeanyi Otu, the division's chief of staff, said;

 

  “It will be gratifying to see that WAEC has successfully held WASSCE in Chibok for the first time in six years, with the military providing security.

 

  “We are all witnesses to what has happened in the recent past, such as the kidnapping of the Chibok girls, the slaughter of students in Buni Yadi, and the kidnapping of students in Dapchi. This is all that happened and we flipped that narrative.

 

  Likewise, let me say that through the Education Corps, the Chief of Army Staff has made targeted efforts to send teachers to all schools in the northeastern states.

 

  “We really do enough to ensure that education is revived, and as we all know, education is a thing that frees the individual and the mind. First, this conflict would not have flourished had it not been for a high rate of illiteracy in this zone. "

 

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