Amina Ali Nkeki is a Nigerian woman who is a former hostage of Boko Haram. She was one of 276 female students the group kidnapped from Chibok in 2014. While 57 of the girls escaped in the first few months, the remaining 219 have been held for multiple years. Of this larger group, Ali was the first to regain her freedom, being found by a patrol group in May 2016. She was found on 17 May 2016 by Civilian Joint Task Force along with a four-month-old child and an alleged Boko Haram member, Mohammed Hayatu, who described himself as her husband. All three were suffering from severe malnutrition. She was then taken to house of the group's leader Aboku Gaji who recognised her. The group then reunited the girl with her parents. Amina also stated that 6 of the kidnapped Chibok schoolgirls had died.
She met Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari on 19 May. In June 2016, the Bring Back Our Girls group as well as Amina's parents started demanding her whereabouts as they hadn't seen her since her meeting with Buhari. It was later discovered that she and her baby were being held in a government facility where they are to be "deradicalised". In her interview with Reuters in August 2016, she stated that she wasn't comfortable with the way she was being kept from her "husband" Hayatu and still thought about him. She also stated that she just wanted to go home. While 21 Chibok schoolgirls who were formerly held by Boko Haram were allowed to visit their families in 2016 for Christmas, Amina and another girl Maryam Ali Maiyanga weren't due to being reportedly deemed psychologically unfit to return home.