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    110 Girls Missing In Latest Suspected Boko Haram Attack, Says Nigerian Government

    Officials have changed their accounts of the alleged kidnapping, after initially claiming the girls were rescued. Four years after Chibok, there are now fears another mass abduction has happened.
    by Amy Held Feb 25, 2018 2 minutes
    Soldiers drive past a sign leading to the Government Girls Science and Technical College staff quarters in Dapchi, Nigeria, on Thursday. Scores of schoolgirls have been reported missing in Monday's suspected Boko Haram attack.

    When Boko Haram extremists snatched 276 girls from a boarding school in northeast Nigeria in 2014, the world reacted and rallied around the cry of "bring back our girls." But now, some four years later, it appears to be happening again.

    The Nigerian information ministry that 110 girls remain unaccounted for.

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