JUST IN: Released Chibok girls arrive Abuja

The 82 Chibok girls freed by the Boko Haram insurgents on Saturday have arrived the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja.

The girls according to the Special Adviser to President Buhari on media and publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina was received on arrival by the chief of staff to the President, Abba Kyari.

Adesina tweeted, “82 Chibok girls now in Abuja. Received on behalf of the President at the airport by Chief of Staff, Alhaji Abba Kyari. Congrats Nigeria.”

It will be recalled that six military choppers were dispatched from Maiduguri Airbase earlier Sunday morning by the Federal Government to pick the girls from Banki for onward movement to Abuja.