Tag: Abducted Schoolgirls
Abducted Schoolgirls: VP Shettima departs for Kebbi
The Vice President will hold meetings with Governor Nasiru Idris, traditional rulers, security leaders, and the parents of the abducted…
Police open up on 21 teenagers abducted in Katsina
According to him, the victims aged between 16 and 21 were labourers harvesting crops on the farm when the kidnappers…
JUST IN: Army rescues 6 abducted schoolgirls in Kaduna
Troops of Operation Thunder Strike rescued on Thursday six female students of Government Day Secondary School Gwagwada in Chikun Local…
Buhari confirms negotiation with Boko Haram for rescue of abducted schoolgirls
President Muhammadu Buhari says Nigeria prefers to have schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram from Chibok and Dapchi back alive, and…
Dapchi Girls: Nigerian Govt. warned against further abductions
The House of Representatives on Tuesday set up an ad hoc committee to visit Dapchi in Yobe to assess the…
3 abducted Ikorodu schoolgirls regain freedom
Three Lagos schoolgirls kidnapped from their school on Monday night have been rescued. The girls from Babington Macaulay Junior Seminary,…
4 abducted schoolgirls escape, 219 still in captivity
Nigeria’s Borno State government said today that four more of the girls kidnapped by Boko Haram last month have escaped,…
US doubts Nigeria’s claim of sighting abducted schoogirls
The United States said on Tuesday it did not have independent information to confirm Nigeria’s claim to know the whereabouts…
How Jonathan aborted freedom deal for Chibok schoolgirls
The British tabloid, The Mail has reported how the over 200 kidnapped schoolgirls held hostage in Nigeria came agonisingly close…
Abducted schoolgirls: 80 US soldiers deployed to Chad
The United States has deployed 80 military personnel to Chad to help regional efforts to rescue more than 200 schoolgirls…
Nigeria’s slow kidnap response worries US officials
WASHINGTON (AFP) – US officials slammed Nigeria’s “slow” response to the kidnapping of more than 200 schoolgirls by Islamic militants…
US confirms drones deployed to Nigeria
The US military is flying surveillance drones as well as manned aircraft over Nigeria to help the search for more…
Jonathan rules out prisoner swap with Boko Haram
Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan on Wednesday ruled out the release of Boko Haram fighters in exchange for the freedom of…
UN expert asks Nigeria to talk with Boko Haram
The United Nations’ top expert on worldwide human trafficking called Tuesday for the negotiated release of Nigerian schoolgirls held by…
Boko Haram is not asking for negotiation, but ransom
By Com Jasper Azuatalam It is important that as a nation, we take a detailed look and have a deep…
Bishop Kukah calls for prayers for release of Chibok girls
Bishop Hassan Kukah, Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, has called on Nigerians to embark on fervent prayers for the successful…
Israel to help find kidnapped Nigerian girls
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday offered to help Nigeria search for hundreds of schoolgirls kidnapped by extremist Islamist…
Nigeria’s military denies forewarning of Chibok attack
The Defence Headquarters has faulted the allegation by Amnesty International that the military authority was informed of the impending attack…
Michelle Obama speaks on Boko Haram abductions
FMichelle Obama, First Lady of the US, is to speak out against the kidnapping of more than 200 Nigerian schoolgirls…
Aregbesola, wife, others protest Chibok school girls abduction
Governor Rauf Aregbesola of Osun state, his wife, Serifat, and other members of his cabinet on Thursday 8 May in…
ECOWAS to assist Nigeria on counter-terrorism – Mahama
ECOWAS leaders had decided to invoke the community’s protocols on counter-terrorism to defeat terrorism and support Nigeria’s efforts to rescue…
Jolie voices out concern about kidnapped Nigerian girls
US actress Angelina Jolie, who will co-chair a summit in June aimed at ending sexual violence in war zones, on…
Jonathan: Girls kidnap turning point in Boko Haram conflict
Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan said Thursday that Boko Haram’s mass abduction of more than 200 schoolgirls would mark a turning…
Nigerian army says it can rescue the abducted girls
The Defence Headquarters (DHQ) has condemned the impression being created by a section of the press that the military lacks…
Abducted Schoolgirls: Police N50m reward too little?
EROMOSELE EBHOMELE The Nigerian Police Wednesday offered a N50 million reward to anybody who could provide genuine information that can…
Abducted schoolgirls: Saraki,women’s group urge FG to brace up
Stephen Oni, Ilorin The Chairman, Senate Committee on Environment and Ecology,Dr Bukola Saraki, has applauded the decision of the the…
Britain pledges to aid Nigeria’s rescue bid for abducted schoolgirls
Britain has promised to deploy intelligence gathering resources to support Nigeria’s bid to rescue more than 200 schoolgirls captured by…
Obama speaks on Boko Haram, Nigerian schoolgirls abduction
US President Barack Obama on Tuesday described the kidnapping of more than 220 schoolgirls by Islamists in Nigeria as “heartbreaking”…
US sends team to locate abducted Nigerian schoolgirls
The United States offered Tuesday to send a team of experts to Nigeria to help find 200 kidnapped schoolgirls amid…
I did not disrespect Patience Jonathan – Borno Gov’s wife
Hajiya Nana Shettima, the wife of Borno Governor, said on Monday that her inability to attend Sunday’s meeting with the…