the-nigerian-government-on-sunday-confirmed-that-110-girls-were-missing-after-a-boko-haram-school-attack-in-the-northeast-following-days-of-silence-on-the-children-s-fate-quot-the-federal-government-has-confirmed-that-110-students-of-the-government-science-and-technical-college-in-dapchi-yobe-state-are-so-far-unaccounted-for-after-insurgents-believed-to-be-from-a-faction-of-boko-haram-invaded-their-school-on-monday-quot-the-information-ministry-said-in-a-statement-the-statement-came-after-authorities-were-unable-to-account-for-110-of-the-school-s-906-students-the-ministry-said-the-kidnapping-has-raised-questions-about-the-military-s-repeated-claims-that-the-islamist-terrorists-are-on-the-verge-of-defeat-after-nearly-nine-years-of-bitter-fighting-it-has-also-revived-memories-of-the-2014-mass-abduction-of-more-than-200-schoolgirls-from-chibok-that-shook-the-world-on-monday-night-terrified-pupils-fled-the-boarding-school-night-when-heavily-armed-fighters-in-military-fatigues-and-turbans-stormed-the-town-shouting-quot-allahu-akbar-quot-quot-god-is-greatest-quot-the-authorities-initially-denied-that-any-student-had-been-kidnapped-on-friday-president-muhammadu-buhari-apologised-to-the-girls-families-saying-quot-this-is-a-national-disaster-we-are-sorry-that-this-could-have-happened-quot-former-military-ruler-buhari-was-elected-in-2015-on-a-promise-to-defeat-boko-haram-after-the-jihadists-grew-in-strength-under-his-predecessor-goodluck-jonathan-jonathan-was-lambasted-for-his-tardy-response-to-the-chibok-abduction-which-saw-276-girls-from-the-town-in-borno-state-taken-in-the-dead-of-night-in-his-first-expanded-comments-on-dapchi-buhari-said-quot-this-is-a-national-disaster-we-are-sorry-that-this-could-have-happened-quot-a-teacher-at-the-school-amsani-alilawan-said-there-were-soldiers-in-dapchi-until-last-month-but-they-were-then-redeployed-quot-one-month-back-they-carry-take-away-all-soldiers-they-transferred-them-to-another-side-they-leave-us-without-security-quot-he-said