CHIBOK GIRLS: MALALA, GEJ MEET IN ASO ROCK
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Seventeen-year-old Pakistani activist fighting for girls' education rights, Malala Yousafzai, is currently in a meeting with President Goodluck Jonathan at the State House in Abuja.
Malala, who survived being shot in the head by the Taliban, arrived the Aso Rock Villa today alongside his father at about 10.20am.
She was accompanied by the spokesperson of the Department of State Security Service, Mary Orgar.
Malala stormed the Villa with more than 20 foreign journalists from Aljazeera, AP, VOA, Bloomberg, ABC News, BBC, Glamour, CNN, among others.
Journalists were however not allowed to cover the meeting.
The meeting is being attended by the National Security Adviser Dasuki Sambo, Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Minister of State for Education, Nyelson Wike, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Viola Onwurli, Director General of the National Orientation Agency (Mike Omeri), among others.
Malala is in Nigeria over the abduction of the schoolgirls of Chibok, Borno State.
She had Sunday met separately with leaders of the #BringBackOurGirls campaign group and some parents of the abducted girls, along with five of the girls who escaped from their captors.
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