Source: Daily Trust
The United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women) has promised to support Nigeria in securing the release of the Chibok schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram insurgent five weeks ago.

Under-Secretary General and Executive Director of UN Women, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka stated this yesterday when she visited the Minister of Women Affairs and Social Development in Abuja.

Mlambo-Ngcuka said the UN Women was ready to support the girls when they return to ensure that their educational career is resumed.

The UN would provide trauma counseling for the parents of the girls, "and also ensure that the educational system of Nigeria is not compromised and the parents of the girls are not forced to choose between staying alive and their education," she said.

Minister of Women Affairs, Hajiya Zainab Maina assured the visiting UN Under-Secretary that the federal government was doing its bests to ensure the safe release of the girls describing the act as not only barbaric but un-Islamic.

"No religion supports humiliating the girl child or women and we pray God touches the hearts of those who abducted the girls so that they will bring back our girls," she said.

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