After more than two years Boko Haram sect abducted over 200 girls from the Government Girls Secondary School, in Chibok Community, Borno state, students of public schools in the area have finally returned to their classrooms.
As a result of the abduction, government schools in Chibok community were closed for fear of more attacks. Children were forced to stay at while some parents who could afford it, sent their children to schools in Abuja, Lagos or Maiduguri. It was gathered that pupils of schools in the community resumed normal and peaceful learning activities over a month ago. Freelance journalist, Femi Owolabi, visited public primary and secondary schools in Chibok and shared photos from Junior Day Secondary School, but reported that academic condition of the the kids has greatly degenerated. Owolabi quoted one of the teachers as saying:
"These kids have now become academically poor. Some of them cannot even write their names correctly again. They've been out of school for years, and most of them have been on the farm with their parents."
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