In Pictures: How Buhari received Amina Ali, ex-Boko Haram captive

Buhari, with Gov. Shettima, greets Amina Ali and her four month old baby

Amina Ali

Buhari carries the baby who now has a Boko Haram father, now detained. Standing first right is Hajiya Hadiza Bala Usman, chief of staff to Kaduna Government. Photo Sunday Aghaeze


President Muhammadu Buhari today received the first of the 219 girls freed from Boko Haram captivity and forced marriage.

Amina Ali was captured by Boko Haram on April 14, 2014 from Chibok Girls Secondary School, along with 279 other girls. Fifty seven of the girls managed to escape before they were herded into Sambisa Forest by the militants, ‘to be sold’ as Abubakar Shekau defiantly said weeks after the abduction.

Mother of Amina Ali, President Buhari and Hajiya Hadiza Bala Usman

Amina Ali, shy initially, veils herself

Amina Ali : in a pensive mood

President Buhari addresses his visitors