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Ghana�s First Lady has joined the international campaign to demand the release of 276 schoolgirls abducted by Islamist Militant group Boko Haram in Nigeria. In her Mother�s Day message to Ghanaian mothers on Sunday, Lordina Mahama said: �This year my wish for Mother�s Day is that the young girls kidnapped in Nigeria will be returned to their mothers, and that the grief of the mothers of others massacred in Buni Yade in Yobe State, also in Nigeria, be somehow lessened.� She said: �The pain and agony these women must be going through is something no mother should ever have to experience.� Mrs Mahama commended the resolve of the mothers affected by Boko Haram�s terrorism saying despite the pain they have gone through, �they have shown strength and courage in the face of this terror,� urging: �Let us show their mothers that they are not alone in their suffering.� �This Mother�s Day, as we draw our children near and give thanks for the blessing of their lives, let us show solidarity with these mothers, and with all mothers who are without their children,� she said. �Let us honour them by praying for the souls of their murdered sons, and for the safe return of their stolen girls.� Boko Haram abducted the Chibok schoolgirls, all aged between 16 and 18, on April 15. The students had been recalled to school in the northern village to write their physics examination. �All of the schools in the area had been closed because of a recent spate of terrorist attacks in which students were the apparent targets.� The girls� abductors tricked them into believing they were being rescued from impending danger. They however became suspicious as they were being moved through the Sambisa forest which shares borders with neighbouring Cameroun. About 50 of the girls managed to escape. The group has killed about 10,000 people since its formation in 2002. It has killed about 1500 Nigerians since the beginning of 2014. Boko Haram in the Hausa language means �western education is a sin�.