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Nigerian troops 'rescue dozens' from Boko Haram

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Twenty-five girls and women freed from Boko Haram camp in Sambisa forest as army continues offensive against the group. Nigerian military says it has rescued 25 more children and women from Boko Haram as part of its ongoing campaign to attack and destroy the armed group’s camps in the northeast. Army spokesman Colonel Sani Usman […]
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Rescued Girls, Women Not from Chibok

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    The recently rescued girls and women by the Nigerian military from Boko Haram captivity in Sambisa are not from Chibok but from Gumsuri, a village in Borno State, BBC reports. Quoting the Associated Press, BBC said this was the conclusion of the officials after series of interviews with the victims. In December, it […]
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Chibok Girls Were Kidnapped To Present Jonathan’s Administration As Incompetent- Okupe

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The Senior Special Assistant to President Goodluck Jonathan on public affairs, Dr. Doyin Okupe, on Saturday said that the abduction of over 200 schoolgirls from Government Girls Secondary School in Chibok, Borno state on April 14, 2014, was to present the administration of President Goodluck Jonathan as incompetent. In a message posted on his personal […]
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Civil Society Group Task Jonathan on Chibok Girls

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A Civil Society Coalition in Lagos on Friday urged President Goodluck Jonathan to make good his administration’s promise of returning the abducted Chibok girls before May 29. President Goodluck Jonathan had promise to ensure that the girls were released before his handover date of May 28. Similarly, Nigeria’s President- Elect, Gen Muhammadu Buhari had promised
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Women in UK Remember Chibok Schoolgirls

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Nigerians in the United Kingdom, on Wednesday, marked the first year of the abduction of the Chibok schoolgirls with a rally opposite the Nigerian High Commission, in London. With chants of: All we are saying, bring back our girls, all we are saying, bring back our girls, the rally, organised by the Nigerian Women in […]
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Chibok Girls Remembered One Year On

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It has been a whole year of pain for the relatives of the missing 219 Chibok girls. Ceremonies are ongoing around the world to mark one year since more than 200 girls were abducted by militant Islamist group Boko Haram. A procession is ongoing in Abuja, with 219 girls from various secondary schools who were […]
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Chibok Girls Are Alive – FG

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  Claims that the kidnapped Chibok girls have been massacred are untrue and should be discard­ed, the Federal Government de­clared on Wednesday. The declaration is in direct con­trast with a claim last week by an official of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugee, Raad Zeid al Hussein, that the school­girls might have been slaughtered. […]
Opinion

A Nation in Dead Heat

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It is election season in Nigeria. Testosterone- charged and power-hungry politicians are on the rampage seeking political offices to implement their vile agendas. The scramble is on. Political horns are clashing; hooves are kicking, as they seek every avenue to get to power. Proponents of evolutionary democracy, Nigerian style, might argue that in accordance with […]
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New Year, New Birth

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It is nine months since the Chibok Girls were abducted and the question is: Will some Chibok couples be grandparents without knowing it? It is a harsh, even cruel question to confront a grieving and traumatised parent with, but we are past such considerations. After nine torturous months our eyes should be wide open, no […]
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Where Are the President's Men?

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As APC continues its relentless onslaught on Goodluck Jonathan and his administration, there is this telling near-silence from the ranks of PDP and others that bear the most duty and possess the best information and wherewithal to defend him. It is profound enough for one to wager that if they are too cowed to defend […]