By Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani ABUJA, Nigeria, May 18 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A Nigerian schoolgirl rescued after two years of being held captive by Boko Haram militants will meet with President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday amid hopes that she can […]
Fresh facts have emerged as to how Mohammed Hayatu, alleged husband of rescued Chibok girl Amina Ali, was arrested. Hayatu, one of the Boko Haram commanders also known as “Amir” reportedly escaped with his wife from the Sambisa forest and […]
A 12-year-old girl who was among the 65 young girls rescued by the troops from Sambisa forest has embarked on hunger strike, saying she wanted to go back to Sambisa forest to meet her Boko Haram husband. The girl was […]
WE were late getting to Chibok. Our driver was delayed. On the way to meet us, he explained, he had seen a mother carrying a sick child on her back and stopped to give them a lift to the hospital. […]
THE 12-year-old girl, identified simply as Queen, who was allegedly raped serially by her father, Bamekpa, with her four-month-old pregnancy crudely aborted, has said she could not count the number of times Bamekpa allegedly forcibly had canal knowledge of her. […]
The Federal Government has made available the photographs of the suspected female suicide bomber who was intercepted in northern Cameroon on Friday before she could blow herself. The photographs were made available in order to verify her claim that she […]
A would-be suicide bomber who told Cameroon officials she was one of 219 Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram in 2014, was wearing a belt with 12kg of bombs. The young woman was one of two would-be bombers who were […]
Governor Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto State has directed the state’s Human Rights Commission to wade into the alleged abduction of a 14-year-old Miss Patience Paul, on August 12, 2015. The governor’s directive came against the backdrop of reports of forcible […]
The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar III yesterday branded child begging, otherwise known as Almajiri in the north as un-Islamic. The monarch who is also the President General of the Nigeria Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA), who […]
There were indications weekend that many of the 200 girls of the Government Secondary School, Chibok abducted in April 2014, are alive and holed up in the Lake Chad region of the North-East epicentre of the battle to dislodge Boko […]
Titilayo Oyinsan, award winning OAP at Inspiration FM in partnership with StayInSchoolng Initiative has today officially launched a fundraising education campaign for the girl child tagged “#IAmDynamite project”. The campaign has received support from several Nigerian celebrities who have signed […]
A girl who was on the verge of being raped bit off the penis of her attacker. According to P.M News, a girl who was being sexually abused fought back her tormentor by biting off his penis. From the pictures, […]
