Nigeria’s first female vice-chancellor, Grace Alele-Williams has slammed the Nigerian army for playing games with the remaining Chibok girls held captive by Boko Haram insurgents. She also said Boko Haram insurgents have sophisticated weapons than the Nigerian military. Three years ago, Boko Haram insurgents stormed Government Secondary School, Chibok in Borno state, and whisked away…
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Patience Jonathan may not be wrong to label northerners ‘almajiris’ –Sanusi
Shahida Sanusi, daughter of the Emir of Kano, Muhammad Sanusi II, has like her father criticised happenings in the northern region and suggested that wife of former President Goodluck Jonathan, Patience, may have been right to describe northers as ‘almajiris’. Shahida stated this when she represented her father on Friday in Abuja at the maiden…
Three years after, our girls are still missing
In their usual manner of launching attacks, the dreaded Boko Haram insurgents, in a convoy of more than ten Hilux vehicles, drove through Damboa into Chibok, a dusty town tucked inside hilly terrains on the southern part of Borno. It was about midnight, April 14th, 2014, and Chibok was asleep when sporadic gunshots broke the…
I am in contact with Boko Haram representatives to secure Chibok girls release – Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday stated that his administration had been talking to representatives of the terrorist group, Boko Haram which abducted the Chibok girls who are still in captivity 3 years after their abduction from the Chibok Secondary School in Borno state. Buhari, in a statement he personally signed noted that his administration had……
CHIBOK GIRLS: We are in touch with Boko Haram, Buhari assures
President Muhammad’s Buhari has stated that the federal government is in constant touch with with the Boko Haram terrorist group with a view to freeing the remaining CHIBOK girls. The president said government is in touch “through negotiations, through local intelligence to secure the release of the remaining girls and other abducted persons unharmed”. Buhari…
President Buhari reiterates FG’s commitment to free Chibok girls still in captivity
President Muhammadu Buhari says that the Federal Government will do everything within its capacity to secure the freedom of the remaining Chibok schoolgirls in captivity of Boko Haram. The President, who said this in a message to mark the 3rd anniversary of the abduction of the Chibok schoolgirls on April 14, noted that the administration……
Buhari speaks on Boko Haram, Chibok girls
President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday recalled that on April 14, 2014, Nigeria suffered one of the worst crimes committed against its citizens – the abduction of schoolgirls from Government Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State, by the vicious terrorist and insurgent group, Boko Haram. In his speech on the third anniversary of the incident, Buhari said…
CHIBOK 3rd ANNIVERSARY: Amnesty Int’l, BBOG want more action as FG says negotiation ongoing
As April 14 makes it exactly three years since 276 school girls in Chibok, Borno State were adopted by Boko Haram terrorists, Amnesty International and Bring Back Our Girls (BBOG) movement has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to gear up efforts to free about 195 of the girls still in captivity. This was even as…
Buhari still negotiating for release of Chibok girls – Osinbajo
Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo has said the Federal Government is still negotiating for the release of the remaining Chibok girls abducted by Boko Haram. Osinbajo stated this on Tuesday evening, at an interaction with journalists and activists at the State House in Abuja. He expressed hope that the negotiations would yield the desired results. “There…
Reps urge FG to expedite negotiations for remaining Chibok girls
The House of Representatives, on Tuesday urged the Federal Government to expedite negotiations for the release of the remaining Chibok school girls still in Boko Haram’s captivity. This followed a motion under matter of urgent public importance moved by Rep. Asabe Bashir (Borno-APC). Moving the motion, Bashir said three years after the abduction, 195 abducted……
Chibok girls with Boko Haram should be freed by April 14 – Hadiza Usman
The Managing Director of the Nigeria Ports Authority, NPA, Hadiza Bala Usman, has urged the military to rescue the remaining Chibok girls in Boko Haram captivity on or before Friday, April 14, the third anniversary of their abduction. Usman said this at the handing over of relief materials to IDPs, donated by NPA to Borno…
Boko Haram remains undefeated until Chibok girls are rescued – Oby Ezekwesili
The Bring Back Our Girls (BBOG) group has faulted the Federal Government on its alleged deepening silence and complacency concerning the search for the remaining 195 Chibok Schoolgirls in Boko Haram enclaves. Co-convener of the group, Oby Ezekwesili, while speaking at the third year remembrance of the abduction of the schoolgirls urged President Muhammadu Buhari…