Girl number 116, Amina Ali, one of the 219 girls kidnapped from Girls Secondary School, Chibok on Tuesday regained her freedom in questionable circumstances.
While the military claimed she was rescued, other sources say she was found near the notorious Sambisa Forest which Nigeria military claimed to have conquered.
She is no doubt a lucky girl and a celebrity in the making. We present 14 important things you should know about this girl, who met President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, Nigeria.
1. Found near Sambisa
2. Found with baby and a man who claimed to be her husband
3.Her child is four months old
4. She was found more than two years after she was kidnapped.
5.Amina Ali Nkeki was found with a four-month-old baby
6. Her suspected Boko Haram husband who impregnated her is Mohammed Hayatu.
7. Amina Ali Nkekii is a quite girl at school
8. Chibok community leader Hosea Abana was quoted as saying she is 19 years old.
9. Her mother was quoted as saying she is a tailor
10. She was brought up by a single mother
11. She was one of 13 siblings.
12. She was one of the only surviving two
13. She is from Mbalala, which is about 10km (6 miles) from Chibok, a mostly Christian town of approximately 30,000 people, but Amina is a Muslim.
14. In a statement, the army says that Ms Nkeki was rescued along with a man called Mohammed Hayatu “who claimed to be her husband”, and calls him “a suspected Boko Haram terrorist”
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