Reuters is reporting that the girl and her four-month old baby were rescued by soldiers working with a civilian vigilante group.
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Per CNN, Nkeki was recognized by a member of the Civilian Joint Task Force, the anti-Boko Haram brigade, as she exited the forest with a man who identified himself as her husband and the father of her child.
The 19-year-old was found wandering in a forest, her uncle told The Associated Press.
However, the leader of a vigilante group in Chibok said his group found the girl near the Sambisa forest, where the girls were reportedly taken.
Emmanuel Ogebe is a human rights lawyer, whose work focuses on the atrocities of Boko Haram and for the last two years, on 219 Chibok school girls. Fifty-seven managed to escape in the immediate aftermath.
“The rest of the girls are alive and well, and are holed up in Sambisa Forest under Boko Haram fortification”, he said.
The rescued Chibok school girl, Amina Ali, was on Wednesday handed over to Borno State Governor, Kashim Shetima, in Government house, Maiduguri.
Usman had earlier said only soldiers rescued the teenager and said her name was Falmata Mbalala.
It later emerged that the Chibok girls were not among them.
Presidential spokesman Garba Shehu told the Thomson Reuters Foundation that the girl is now in Maiduguri, the capital of Borno state, but will be brought to the national capital, Abuja, to meet Buhari.
A photograph provided by the military showed a young woman sitting in a plastic chair, wearing flip-flops, a patterned hijab and pink wrapper common in the region.
Ali’s mother, Binta Ali Nkeki, past year spoke of her daughter’s fear of Boko Haram but of her enjoyment of attending school and doing well at her studies.
But despite the identities of the girls being confirmed by mothers and a classmate, the government said it was cautious about raising hopes of their release.
The Nigerian government has claimed it is making an effort to find the missing girls, though this is the first we’ve seen of any of them outside videos released by Boko Haram.
A screengrab taken from a Boko Haram video showing girls believed to be the schoolgirls abducted in Chibok.
The abduction sparked outrage worldwide and brought global attention to the Boko Haram insurgency, which has killed at least 20,000 people and made more than 2.6 million homeless since 2009.
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She was among 276 girls – mostly aged 16 to 18 – taken captive at their boarding school as they prepared for an exam.
