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Dapchi abduction: GGSC reopens full activities 9 months after Boko Haram invasion

Ihesiulo Grace 16 November 2018 0

…Leah Sharibu still in Boko Haram captivity Nine months after Boko Haram insurgents abducted about 112 schoolgirls in Dapchi, Yobe State, academic activities have resumed fully in Government Girls’ Science and Technical College. The school reopened its activities without Leah Sharibu, who

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100 billion naira ransom: Coalition wants UN, US to urgently rescue abducted Leah Sharibu

Ihesiulo Grace 29 October 2018 0

An anti terror group, the Coalition Against Terrorism (CATE) has urged the United Nations as well as the United States government to assist in the rescue of Leah Sharibu, the remaining Dapchi school girl abducted by Boko Haram. The group said it had learned that Boko Haram is demanding N100 billion for the release of […]

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Buhari calls Leah Sharibu’s mother, vows to rescue abducted schoolgirl

Ihesiulo Grace 4 October 2018 0

President Muhammadu Buhari has spoken with Mrs. Rebecca Sharibu, mother of the Dapchi Secondary schoolgirl, Leah, who was kidnapped by Boko Haram terrorists and vowed to rescue her. Buhari gave the assurance during a telephone call on Wednesday, adding that his administration will do everything it would take to bring Leah Sharibu back home. The […]

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PFN urges Buhari to rescue Leah Sharibu fast

Ihesiulo Grace 2 September 2018 0

National President of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN), Dr Felix Omobude has urged the Federal government to act swiftly in rescuing the Dapchi school girl, Leah Sharibu from the captivity of the dreaded Islamic extremists, Boko Haram. Miss Sharibu is the Christian girl who was kidnapped alongside 118 students of Government Girls Secondary School, […]

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Intensify efforts to rescue Leah Sharibu, others – Senate tells FG

Ihesiulo Grace 25 May 2018 0

The Senate on Thursday urged the Federal Government to intensify effort to secure the release of Leah Sharibu, the only Dapchi Schoolgirl that is still in Boko Haram captivity. Leah was among the 105 pupils of Government Girls Science and Technical College Dapchi abducted by Boko Haram insurgents on Monday, February 19, 2018 but left […]

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Saraki calls for concerted efforts toward rescue of remaining kidnapped school girls

Ihesiulo Grace 15 April 2018 0

Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, on Sunday called for concerted efforts by governments, security agencies, religious and community leaders, to rescue the remaining 112 Chibok Girls and the Dapchi school girl, Leah Sharibu, from Boko Haram’s captivity. He noted with sadness the plight of the parents of the abducted girls whose wards are not back […]

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Nigerian Army’s re-assuring victory over terrorism

Ihesiulo Grace 11 April 2018 0

Overtime, I have observed the character of terrorism as a complex, unpredictable and dynamic phenomenon. Terrorists are very determined rebels, who hardly flinch like Lucifer in perpetrating evil and atrocities. They have a resolve that is almost unbreakable and exhibit empty boldness even in the face of defeat. Boko Haram Terrorists (BHTs) embody all of […]

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Boko Haram Gives Reason For Release Of Dapchi School Girls

Ihesiulo Grace 9 April 2018 0

Boko Haram faction, Islamic State West Africa Provence (ISWAP), has given the reason it released the girls kidnapped from the Government Girls’ Technical College, Dapchi in Yobe State. The group, in an audio recording exclusively obtained by  said the girls were freed because of its allegiance to the leadership of the Islamic State in Iraq and […]

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Dapchi/Chibok: The tears of Sharibu, other prisoners of hope

Ihesiulo Grace 7 April 2018 0

…No victory until Leah Sharibu, other abductees are free – Odumakin …Nigerian state incapable of protecting citizens – JAF Understandably, rapturous enthusiasm greeted the news of the release of Dapchi schoolgirls by their abductors. For their families, it was an answer to days of fasting and prayers. Grief gave way to gaiety. Indescribable joy

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Dapchi Girls Abduction Scripted To Make Buhari Approve $1bn To Fight Boko Haram‎ – Aisha

Ihesiulo Grace 5 April 2018 0

Yesterday, it was revealed that President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the release of $1 billion to Nigerian Defence authorities for the purchase of security equipment to fight insecurity in the country. Aisha Yesufu, co-convener of BringBackOurGirls, BBOG, advocacy group on Wednesday made fresh claims on why Boko Haram abducted some students of Government Girls Science

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Cleric calls for emulation of Leah Sharibu’s faith in God

Ihesiulo Grace 2 April 2018 0

The Spiritual Father of Cherubim and Seraphim Movement Church Worldwide, Most Rev. Samuel Abidoye, has advised Nigerians to emulate the exceptional spiritual devotion to God exhibited by Leah Sharibu, one of the girls abducted by the Boko Haram in Dapchi, who is still in captivity. Abidoye gave the advice during the installation of some leaders […]

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Dapchi Kidnap: Christian women task Plateau Assembly on the release of Leah

Ihesiulo Grace 29 March 2018 0

Christian women in Plateau State, has lend their voice with women across the country, demanding the release of the only Christian school girl who was kept back by Boko Haram, because of her refusal to convert to Islam. The women in a procession to the Plateau State House of Assembly, Wednesday, carried placards with inscriptions […]

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Dapchi schoolgirls return to Yobe, reunite with parents

Ihesiulo Grace 26 March 2018 0

The 105 Dapchi schoolgirls who were recently freed from Boko Haram captive have been reunited with their parents. The girls were transported via a military airplane on Sunday morning to Damaturu, from where they travelled to Dapchi. They were subsequently handed over to their parents at the assembly hall of Government Secondary School, Dapchi, in […]

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31 days after, FG rescues 104 Dapchi schoolgirls

Ihesiulo Grace 22 March 2018 0

…5 girls die, 2 still in Boko Haram’s captivity …This is how govt should respond – APC …PDP: No, Presidency stage-managed abduction for 2019 polls Thirty-one days after the abduction of schoolgirls from Government Girls Science and Technical College, Dapchi, Yobe State, President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government on Wednesday, March 21, 2018,

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Nigeria military alerted before Dapchi abduction, Amnesty international says

Ihesiulo Grace 20 March 2018 0

Human Rights Group, Amnesty International has accused the Nigerian military of failing to prevent the abduction of 110 schoolgirls in Yobe state despite being warned. Amnesty International in a statement made available to Channels Television said security forces failed to act on advance warnings that a convoy of Boko Haram fighters was heading to Dapchi […]

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President Buhari’s politicizing Dapchi abduction-PDP

Ihesiulo Grace 19 March 2018 0

…Scoring Cheap Political points The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described as iniquitous, the attempt by President Muhammadu Buhari to use the heartbreaking abduction of innocent schoolgirls in Dapchi, Yobe state, to score cheap political points. The party expressed shock that President Buhari could do so right before our grief-stricken parents. The PDP also

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Buhari in Dapchi, pledges to rescue abducted schoolgirls alive

Ihesiulo Grace 15 March 2018 0

President Muhammadu Buhari has reassured parents of the abducted Dapchi schoolgirls that the Federal Government will not rest on its oars, until their children are safely brought back home. Buhari gave the reassurance on Wednesday in Dapchi when he met with the parents of the schoolgirls for a second time after meeting with stakeholders in […]

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#Dapchigirls: Buhari arrives Yobe

Ihesiulo Grace 14 March 2018 0

President Muhammadu Buhari has arrived Damaturu, the Yobe State capital where he was received by the governor of the state, Premium Times is reporting. The news agency says President Buhari left Maiduguri, the Borno State, at about 12 noon on board a Nigerian Air Force chopper alongside the Borno State Governor, Kashim Shettima; and the […]

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Like Dapchi, like Chibok: Deepening misery and lost future

Ihesiulo Grace 10 March 2018 0

Nineteen days after about 110 students of Government Girls Science and Technical College Dapchi, Yobe State were herded away in trucks, panic, confusion and worry still linger over the fate of the missing schoolgirls, rehashing sordid memories of over 200 missing Chibok girls abducted in 2014 by Boko Haram elements, The Daily Times has gathered. […]

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#Dapchi School girls: Is a collective shame to every Nigerian-LCCN Archbishop

Ihesiulo Grace 3 March 2018 0

In an effort to make”a passionate call for an end to the mindless killing and the rescue of the Dapchi school girls”, the archbishop of the Lutheran Church of Christ in Nigeria (LCCN), Most Rev. Musa Panti Filibus,PhD described the abduction of the school girls as a collective shame to all Nigerians. Panti in a […]