Tag: Chibok girls
Chibok Girls, Boko Haram And Jihad Of The Penis
By Obinna Akukwe A new type of Jihad which uses penis as instrument of conversion and coercion has been introduced…
Chibok Parents Snub: Jonathan embarrassed Nigerians – APC
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has described as a compound embarrassment the fact that it took 17-year old girl-child education…
Chibok panel blast Jonathan, says response ‘Insulting’
Relatives of some of the schoolgirls seized in a mass kidnapping by Boko Haram demanded Wednesday that Nigeria’s president meet…
Malala tells Jonathan to meet parents of hostages
Pakistani education activist Malala Yousafzai on Monday urged Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan to meet with parents of the schoolgirls kidnapped…
Malala, Pakistani girl-child campaigner calls for Chibok girls release
Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani girl-child education campaigner, who survived an assassination attempt by the Taliban, has called on Boko Haram…
#BringBackOurGirls decries attacks by DSS spokesperson, security agencies
The #BringBackOurGirls movement which has been campaigning for a more urgent action on the part of government to rescue over…
‘We’ve Not Started Jonathan’s Re-Election Campaign’
Supporters of President Goodluck Jonathan under the aegis of GEJites Volunteers have disproved the statement issued on Thursday by the…
Nigeria closer to rescuing Chibok schoolgirls – FG
The Federal Government said on Monday that it had identified a number of leads that would help in rescuing the…
We’re working tirelessly to bring back Chibok girls – Jonathan
President Goodluck Jonathan has said that the Federal Government has spared no resources in the effort to find the girls…
US cuts drone hunt for kidnapped Chibok girls
The United States has reduced its surveillance flights in a bid to find more than 200 Nigerian schoolgirls abducted by…
#BringBackOurGirls Rally In Lagos
Simon Ateba A rally to free the Chibok girls from the Boko Haram insurgents will take place in Lagos, western…
No sacrifice is too much for Chibok girls, says Baraje
A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Alhaji Kawu Baraje, said on Sunday that no sacrifice would be too…
The faces of the Chibok girls abducted by Boko Haram
Since 14 April, all the girls shown here have been in the captivity of Boko Haram militants. Abducted from their…
Jonathan receives Chibok report, promises to rebuild school
President Goodluck Jonathan on Friday received report of the Presidential Fact Finding Committee on Abducted Female Students in Chibok, Borno…
Chibok girls: Religious leader calls for more prayer
Reverend Father Patrick Emmanuel, Chairman, Christian Association of Nigeria, Karu, FCT Chapter, has called for intensified prayer sessions for the…
Chibok Girls: Mounting fears and mistrust
Two months since the kidnapping of more than 200 Nigerian schoolgirls, the teenagers appear no nearer being found and freed,…
UN urges Nigerians to work for safe release of Chibok girls
Said Djinnit, United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Representative to West Africa, on Monday urged Nigerians to close ranks and work toward…
Military’s Transferred Aggression
The seizure last week of thousands of copies four major Nigerian newspapers by the military at the behest of the…
Boko Haram: Coordinator Wants Security Beefed Up In Schools
A Coordinator of Unity Colleges, Mr. Rufus Famuwagun, on Tuesday urged strengthening of security in public and private schools to…
Boko Haram is Un-Islamic, Says Assemblyman
Eromosele Ebhomele To Abdulbaq Ladi Balogun, a Muslim and lawmaker representing Ajeromi/Ifelodun Constituency 2 at the Lagos State House of…
Parents Of Chibok Girls Traumatised
The three girls who escaped from Boko Haram foot soldiers while being abducted from Government Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State…
Chibok Girls: We’ve not banned protests in Nigeria, Police say
Contrary to the directive of Joseph Mbu, the Federal Capital Territory, FCT police commissioner yesterday, the authorities of the Nigeria…
Senator Ojudu Dares Mbu, Stages #BringBackOurGirls Protest
Jamiu Yisa In defiance of the order by the Federal Capital Territory Commissioner of Police, Joseph Mbu, not to stage…
AU in renewed efforts to rescue Chibok girls
The AU has announced plans to engage the Federal Government and other stakeholders in a meeting, in a fresh bid…
It’s bad to abuse the President – Patience Jonathan
Patience Jonathan, whose husband has come under censure from some Nigerians and foreigners over his handling of the kidnap of…
Chibok girls: Comments from Defence Chief reassuring – Group
Grand Alliance Against Terrorism (GAAT), an Abuja-based NGO, has commended the military’s search for the abducted Chibok girls, saying comments…
Military will not use force to rescue Chibok girls – CDS
The Chief of Defence Staff, Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh, said on Monday that the military would not use force…
Children’s Day: Gombe to pray for Chibok girls, no fanfare
The Gombe Government said it would use the Children Day celebration to pray for the release of the abducted Chibok…
‘Next Democracy Day will witness a new government’ – Jonathan
President Goodluck Jonathan on Sunday assured Nigerians that by this time next year, the country ‘will witness a new government’.…
Ex-minister suspends birthday bash for Chibok girls
Prof. Taoheed Adedoja, former Minister of Sports and Special Duties, has suspended his 63rd birthday anniversary celebration because of the…