The commendation came after the government, through Presidential spokesman, Garba Shehu, confirmed the release of the girls which it said was as a result of combined efforts among security agencies, the military, the government of Switzerland, the Red Cross, local and international NGOs.
“We have reached out to their captors, through local and international intermediaries, and we are ever ready to do everything within our means to ensure the safe release of all the girls,” Buhari's spokesman, Femi Adesina said in a statement of Thursday.
The Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA, donates relief materials including food and non-food items to Internally Displaced Persons in Borno State in remembrance of the Chibok school girls who were abducted by Boko Haram insurgents 3 years ago.