Tag: Abducted Schoolgirls
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…