CONFIRMED: Jonathan received new video of abducted girls begging for their lives

The Presidency yesterday confirmed receiving a new video showing the abducted Chibok schoolgirls begging for their lives. 

The Girls were seen pleading with President Jonathan to help rescue them from their Boko Haram captors. 

Senior Special Assistant to the President on Public Affairs, Dr. Doyin Okupe, made the confirmation in an interview with CNN aired last night. 

The British newspaper Mail on Sunday had reported that the video was delivered to the Presidency by a Boko Haram intermediary as “proof of life” for the girls and to encourage the President to accede to the sect’s demands. 

Amnesty Reports unfounded - Defence Headquarters

The Nigerian military on Friday said a report by Amnesty International, AI, on the abducted Chibok schoolgirls was false. The global human rights organisation had released a report on Friday indicting the Nigerian military for the kidnap of over 250 girls from the Government Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State, on April 14.

AI said the military had at least 4-hour prior warning of the Chibok attack, but did not do enough to stop it. According to AI’s report, sources said that local patrols (known as “vigilantes”, set up by the military and local authorities) in Gagilam, a neighbouring village, were among the first to raise the alarm on the evening of 14 April.‬

‪The locals, the report said, raised the alarm after a large group of unidentified armed men entered their village on motorbikes and said they were headed to Chibok.‬

Okonjo Iweala: I'm Tired of School Girls' Story

The Nigerian Finance Minister and Coordinating Minister of Economy, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo Eweala says She's Tired of Talking About the Kidnapped Girls.

When asked by the ABC news America to respond to some questions on the Boko Haram Abducted Chibok schoolgirls, the minister said she is tired of the same story.

She said the government is doing all it could to bring the girls back safely.

Why I will Defeat Boko Haram - President Jonathan

The Nigerian President, Dr Goodluck Jonathan said yesterday that" abduction of Chibok‘s school girls, beginning of Boko Haram’s end.“

Speaking to the world leaders at the World Ecomomic Forum in Abuja on Thursday, Jonathan said Nigeria will win "war on terror" despite deadly attack and kidnapping of schoolgirls.

World powers has joined in the search for abducted Chibok schoolgirls. The US, the UK, France, Canada and China have all offered help to find them.