The National Inter-Faith and Religious Organisation of Nigeria for Peace has called on Christian and Muslim faithful in the country to use this Sunday and Friday and offer thanksgiving for the release of the 21 Chibok girls. The National Coordinator of the group, Bishop Musa Fomson while addressing journalists in Abuja, urged Nigerians to also […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Federal Government, on Wednesday, disclosed that intelligence gathered indicated that the present military operation was focused on the area where the abducted Chibok school-girls were believed to be held by the Boko Haram terrorists. National Co-ordinator of the National Information Centre, Mr. Mike Omeri, who made the revelation, while updating journalists on the […]
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 […]
The Labour Party has advised the President-elect, General Muhammadu Buhari (retd) and his party, the All Progressives Congress (APC), not to take Nigerians for granted by backing down on their campaign promises, as the people are expectant of real change. The advice was contained in a statement issued in Lagos, on Wednesday, by the National […]
The chairman, Senate committee on Ecology and Environment, Dr. Bukola Saraki has urged Nigerians to be hopeful on the return of the abducted Chibok school girls. Saraki in a statement signed by his media aide, Bamikole Omisore said that “we must remain hopeful of their return, and steadfast in our determination to find them”. The former governor […]
The House of Representatives, on Tuesday, tasked the Federal Government to ensure that the Chibok Secondary School girls, abducted by Boko Haram since April 14, 2015, are rescued before the May 29, handover date. Members of the House passed the resolution after unanimously adopted a motion of urgent public importance moved by Rep. Abike Dabiri-Erewa, […]
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 […]
The Chibok schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram insurgents were reportedly seen alive, according to a report by BBC. More than 50 of the girls abducted by militant Islamists in Nigeria last year were seen alive three weeks ago, a woman has told the BBC. She saw the girls in the north-eastern Gwoza town before the […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The APC Presidential Campaign Organisation (APCPCO) has called on President Goodluck Jonathan to offer more credible explanations about the fate of the Chibok girls being held hostage for almost a year by the Boko Haram terrorists. The campaign organisation also said the recent “assurance” by the President that the girls “are safe” amounts to cold […]
A woman abducted by Boko Haram insurgents along with her grand daughter has returned with tales of horror— and a possible clue to the location of the kidnapped Chibok girls. According to the 67-year-old woman, Maryamu Bala of Madagali, Adamawa State (now in one of the Internally displaced persons camps in the state), she could […]