UNIMAID lecturers spend 69 days with Boko Haram

Four lecturers of the University of Maiduguri, Borno State, who were abducted by Boko Haram in the Magumeri area of Borno State during an oil exploration have spent 69 days in captivity.

This is just as the Defence Headquarters, Abuja, said the military was still making efforts to rescue the lecturers.

The Director, Defence Information, Maj. Gen. John Enenche, said on Sunday that “intelligence was still being processed to bring the victims back and alive.”

The lecturers had been abducted on Tuesday, July 25. No fewer than 48 persons were killed by Boko Haram during the exploration to the Lake Chad Basin area on that Tuesday.

Sources at the University of Maiduguri, Borno State, where the corpses were brought, revealed that the deceased included 18 soldiers, 15 civilian Joint Task Force members, five workers of the university and four drivers with the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation.

UCJ, UNILORIN.