– 27: News emerges that Nigeria’s former president Olusegun Obasanjo has been in talks with Boko Haram to broker a deal to release the girls.

— JUNE —

– 12: Representatives from Nigeria, Chad, Cameroon, Niger and Benin agree to strengthen joint efforts to find the schoolgirls and defeat Boko Haram.

– 24: Local officials say at least 30 people were killed and 68 women and girls abducted in several fresh attacks. On July 4 however, 63 of them manage to escape.

— JULY —

– 18: Borno state Governor Kashim Shettima says that 176 teachers have been killed and 900 schools destroyed in Borno since Boko Haram began attacking them in 2011, because they are centres of Western education

– 22: First meeting between Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan and the schoolgirls’ relatives.

— SEPTEMBER —

– 25: Nigeria’s police claim that one of the schoolgirls has been found but elders reject the claim.