Jihadist group Boko Haram has freed 21 of more than 200 girls it kidnapped in April 2014 in the northern Nigerian town of Chibok, the government said on Thursday. Their release came after the International Red Cross and the Swiss government brokered a deal with the group, and negotiations would continue to bring home the […]
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Members of the #BringBackOurGirls (#BBOG) advocacy have stated that the world cannot afford to move on without the rescue of the Chibok girls. The group which marked the third consecutive International Day of the Girl Child without the Chibok girls, attributed their lack of rescue to a big loss to the world. #BBOG in a […]
Read More Security agents on Monday blocked the Bring Back Our Girls (BBOG) movement from gaining access to the presidential villa, as part of their advocacy for the rescue of the abducted Chibok girls. Oby Ezekwesili, leader of the group, engaged a police officer who said he had orders not to allow the group gain access to […]
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The Nigerian Army says the outlawed Boko Haram group will be punished for killing 40 of the Chibok girls in their custody. The Theatre Commander of the counter-insurgency war, Operation Lafiya Dole, Major General Lucky Irabor, who made the vow, told a news conference that the days of the Boko Haram insurgents were numbered. General […]
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The first Chibok schoolgirls rescued from Boko Haram after two years in captivity in northeast of the Nation, said in her first interview that she just wants to go home. Amina Ali and her four-month-old baby were rescued in May near Damboa in Borno state by soldiers and a civilian vigilante group, more than two years […]
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Nigeria’s army said Monday it wants to question three suspects, including a journalist, for allegedly concealing information on the kidnapped Chibok schoolgirls. The announcement came just a day after Boko Haram released a new video purportedly showing some of the more than 200 girls who were seized by Boko Haram in northeastern Nigeria in April […]
Read More One of the Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped from the remote area of Chibok more than two years ago was said to have been recognised by her father in a video released by Boko Haram on Sunday. A spokesman for the Bring Back Our Girls movement, set up to demand the return of 276 schoolgirls kidnapped in […]
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Even family haven’t been able to see her. In an abcnews report, Nigeria’s Bring Back Our Girls movement is demanding that the government provide news of the only Chibok schoolgirl among 219 kidnapped to escape the clutches of Boko Haram Islamic extremists. “Even this morning people came to my house asking if I had been […]
Read More The fact that one Chibok girl basically rescued herself last week shouldn’t make any of us feel better. The family of Amina Ali Nkeki has a reason to celebrate. The rest of the world does not. The response from the Nigerian government and the Obama administration to one abducted Chibok girl’s escape last week is […]
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A private school in Osun State, Kunike International School, Osogbo, has offered to give full scholarship to the first two Chibok girls rescued from the captivity of the Boko Haram sect. Amina Alli, rescued with her four-month-old baby, and Serah Luka were rescued last week from Sambisa Forest which is the hideout of the dreaded […]
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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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Chibok parents refuted the Nigerian Army’s report that the second rescued girl, Serah Luka, was among the 219 kidnapped by Boko Haram. Amina Ali, believed to be among the Chibok schoolgirls, was announced rescued from the hands of the terrorists on Wednesday. The army had again said in a statement on Thursday that its troops killed […]
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