President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday said the degrading of Boko Haram insurgency led to the release of 106 Chibok and 104 Dapchi girls abducted by the insurgents. He said that the routing of the terrorists also accounted for the release of no fewer than 16,000 other persons from their captivity. Buhari stated this in a […]
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Relatives say more than 100 girls recently released by the Islamic extremist group Boko Haram have been reunited with their parents in northern Nigeria. Bashir Manzo, head of the group of parents whose children were abducted, told The Associated Press that the children were reunited with their parents Sunday. Five of the schoolgirls kidnapped in […]
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Islamist militants drove scores of kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls back into the town where they had been captured a month ago and abruptly set them free on Wednesday. The captors gave no reason for their release, but Nigeria denied that a ransom had been paid. Several of the girls said some of their friends had died […]
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Frightened students on Monday stayed away from the school in northern Nigeria where Boko Haram extremists seized 110 girls in a raid a week ago, while the military said it had handed over the town’s security to police ahead of the attack because it was “relatively calm.” The mass abduction from the Government Girls Science […]
Read More The Nigeria Army on Monday explained why it withdrew troops at Dapchi town before the last attack that led to the abduction of 110 girls at Government Girls’ Science Technical College, Dapchi. A statement signed by the Deputy Director of Public Relations and Spokesman of the Theatre Command, Operation Lafiya Dole, Col. Onyema Nwachukwu, said […]
Read More More than 100 girls missing for a week after a Boko Haram attack on a school in northeast Nigeria were kidnapped, the government said for the first time on Monday. The authorities in Abuja had previously stopped short of saying the 110 students were seized during the raid on the Government Girls Science and Technology […]
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