The Nigerian government has given an insight into the negotiations that led to the release of 21 Chibok school girls. A confirmation the girls had been freed came Thursday morning. The girls –nearly 300 – were abducted by the extremist […]
The Nigerian government has given an insight into the negotiations that led to the release of 21 Chibok school girls. A confirmation the girls had been freed came Thursday morning. The girls –nearly 300 – were abducted by the extremist […]
A Sierra Leonean diplomat who was kidnapped in northern Nigeria has been freed, the police said on Tuesday. “The diplomat has been reunited with the Sierra Leonean High Commissioner (ambassador) and his family,” said Force Public Relations Officer, Don Awunah. […]
A woman has narrated how she was kidnapped by suspected Boko Haram militants, stripped and strapped with explosives, and asked to bomb a popular textile market in Kano. The Kano State Police commissioner, Abbati Maigari Dikko, on Sunday brought mother-of-three […]
The Nigerian Army has defended its earlier statement that a second girl rescued by its troops on Thursday was among the nearly 300 school students abducted from a secondary school in Chibok by Boko Haram. The army dismissed reports that […]
A Closed Circuit Television Camera at a supermarket in the Abule Egba area of Lagos State has shown that a woman, identified only as Mama Oyin, who disguised as a customer, strapped a one-year-old girl, Fehintola Lawal, to her back […]
Two years after over 200 girls were abducted from their school premises in Chibok, Borno State, one of the girls have been found, BBC reports. Amina Ali Darsha Nkeki from Mbalala was found in Kulakaisa area at the fringes of […]
It began while we were sleeping. My husband, Dr. Danladi Saleh, a medical doctor from Chibok, and I had been married just nine days earlier and had spent the day making a long journey to visit his family. We returned […]
A Colonel, Samaila Inusa, who was abducted last Sunday, has been found dead. The Army, in a statement yesterday, said Colonel Inusa’s body was found in Kaduna. He is suspected to have been killed by his abductors the day he […]
The Nigerian army on Sunday said one of its senior officer serving in the Nigerian Army School of Infantry Jaji, Kaduna has been abducted. The officer, Colonel Samaila Musa in a press statement signed by Col Usman Abdul, the Deputy […]
The 14 women and 2 girls abducted by members of the Boko Haram sect on Wednesday in Madagali, Adamawa State has been rescued, the Nigerian Army said on Friday. According to the News Agency of Nigeria, the Public Relations Officer […]
In a dramatic twist, the police in Lagos yesterday discredited their earlier claim that they secured the release of three students of the Babington Macaulay Junior Seminary School, Ikorodu, abducted from their school premises last month without payment of any […]
Fifteen-year-old Patience Paul, the schoolgirl allegedly abducted in Sokoto and forcefully converted to Islam, has recounted how she was abducted, held in captivity and sexually abused for seven months in Sarkin Baki (king of strangers’) residence in Sokoto State. Patience, […]