Terror sect Boko Haram seems to willing to broker a deal with the federal government to release the remaining kidnapped Chibok school girls in return for escaping prosecution, The Nation report. Over 200 students of the Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State, were seized two years ago and have not been traced or found. The […]
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Amina Ali Nkeki, the Chibok schoolgirl who was rescued Tuesday after two years in Boko Haram’s captivity, will have the opportunity to return to school and live her dreams, President Muhammadu Buhari said Thursday after meeting with the girl at the presidential villa in Abuja, Premiumtimes report Amina, who was one of nearly 300 girls abducted by […]
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Members of umbrella body representing the Chibok community, the Kibaku Area Development Association (KADA), yesterday kicked against the reference to Mohammad Hayyatu – the Boko Haram fighter who put the rescued Chibok girl Amina Ali in the family way – as her husband. Hayyatu should instead be referred to as a Boko Haram sexual exploiter, […]
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The Nigerian Army on Wednesday arrested a member of the Boko Haram group, Mohammed Hayatu, who claimed to be husband to the rescued Chibok school girl, Amina Ali. Hayatu’s arrest was disclosed in a statement by Colonel Sani Kukasheka Usman, Acting Director Army Public Relations. The Acting Army PR Officer noted in the statement: “Please […]
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Wife of the President, Mrs. Aisha Buhari, has fulfilled her promise of donating proceeds from the public presentation of her book, “The Essentials of Beauty Therapy. A Complete Guide for Beauty Specialists,” to parents of the over 200 schoolgirls abducted from Chibok in April 2014 and the parents of the boys also abducted in Buni […]
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One of the missing Chibok school girls has been reportedly found, activists say, the first to be rescued since their capture two years ago. In all, 218 girls remain missing after their abduction from a secondary school in north-east Nigeria in April 2014. Activists told the BBC that Amina Ali Nkek was found by a […]
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The Nigerian Army on Monday cautioned media practitioners in the country against negative reports that would hamper the ongoing war against terrorism in the North East, The Nation, report. Brig.-Gen. Victor Ezugwu, General Officer Commanding (GOC), 7 Division of the Nigerian Army, stated this while speaking with newsmen in Maiduguri. Ezugwu said that the call became […]
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[T]he United State administration is seeking to approve a sale of as many as 12 A-29 Super Tucano light attack aircraft to Nigeria to aid its battle against the extremist group Boko Haram, U.S. officials say, in a vote of confidence in President Muhammadu Buhari’s drive to reform the country’s corruption-tainted military. According to Reuters, […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday evening disclosed that over 56,000 Nigerians are currently taking refuge in neighbouring Cameroon because of the activities of the Boko Haram sect in the North Eastern part of the country. He said he was saddened by the terror unleashed by the sect on the country which he said led to […]
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Military chiefs yesterday met in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, to reappraise the ongoing anti-insurgency war in Sambisa Forest —believed to be the last stronghold of the Boko Haram insurgents. Yesterday’s meeting was presided over by Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) Gen Gabriel Abayomi Olanisakin. It was attended by Chief of Army Staff Lt. Gen. […]
Read More Following the unconducive environment that now exists for the Boko Haram Terrorists in the North Eastern part of country, the remnants of the terrorists now hide in fox holes to escape the routing of the Nigerian Soldiers, The Nation report. According to the Army Acting Director of Public Relations Colonel Sani Usman the terrorists who […]
Read More Just over two years ago, the extremist Islamist group Boko Haram became infamous worldwide for kidnapping nearly 300 Nigerian schoolgirls, most of whom are still missing today. However, within the Lake Chad Basin region, a region straddling Nigeria, Chad, Niger, and Cameroon in West Africa, Boko Haram already was widely known for the brutality it […]
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