The statement reads: “It’s over 86 days now that about 276 female teenagers were abducted from Government Secondary School in Chibok town in Borno state, Nigeria. Feminine Voice condemns in strong terms this inhumane act by these Boko Haram insurgents
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The meeting was convened by President Goodluck Jonathan to brief the Council on the security situation in the country, with special focus on the ongoing effort to free the missing girls
The girls, who were writing their school certificate examinations, were abducted on the night of April 14, this year when members of the Boko Haram terrorist group lured them away on the pretext that they were soldiers sent to rescue them from insurgents
I admit that for weeks, the Nigerian military was nowhere to be seen in Chibok and aggrieved parents had to resort to venturing into the jungle on foot to search for their children. But I assure everyone, we are doing our best
Jonathan also stated that his silence on the administration’s efforts to secure the release of the kidnapped Chibok girls did not amount to inaction or weakness as being perceived by partisan critics
Speaking to reporters, Pentagon spokesman, Rear Admiral John Kirby, said: “We don’t have any better idea today than we did before about where these girls are, but there’s been no letup of the effort itself
Jonathan, who spoke after Sabo’s presentation, described terrorism as a sad event and assured Nigerians that the evil the Boko Haram sect represented would not last forever.
The fact that they might have been distributed and taken to different places is a major reason that the military is not considering the use of force in their rescue efforts, says the Coordinator of the National Information Centre, Mike Omeri, in Abuja on Monday
Tsambido Hosea-Abana, the Chairman of Chibok Community in Abuja, pleaded with the relevant security agencies to ensure, without further delay, the release of the abducted girls
Nigeria, Chad, Benin, Niger and Cameroon have confirmed that they will operationalise a Regional Intelligence Fusion Unit to bring together all available information and tighten the net around Boko Haram
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The Defence spokesperson, Major General Chris Olukolade, who spoke at the regular briefing by the National Information Centre, which holds at the headquarters of National Orientation Agency, Abuja, said: “Let everyone believe what the Chief of Defence Staff said and if you don’t believe, wait for developments, but our interest is in the safety of these children and every effort will be put towards that and we expect cooperation from everyone
Governor Uduaghan observed that despite the havoc the group was causing, it was not winning the war and cautioned against actions and utterances that tend to give encouragement and impetus to the terrorists
Ababukar said the state government cancelled the fanfare associated with the Children’s Day celebration because of the security challenges in the North-East
“Among those with whom the committee interfaced are the Shehu of Borno, military commanders, heads of para-military formations, the state Commissioner of Police, and state Director of the Department of Security Service
The Commissioner of Information, Communications and Strategy in the state, Danladi Ndayebo, told reporters in Minna on Thursday that Children’s Day and Democracy Day celebrations would be marked in the state with prayers for the nation
The Chairman of the union, Malam Bulama Abiso, made the call at a rally on the abducted 230 students of the Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok, in Maiduguri, Borno State
Jonathan said that because he identified with the protest, he had sent such a delegation of more than 10 ministers and many presidential advisers to receive the protesters
Meanwhile, suspected gunmen from the group have shot dead 29 farm workers as they tilled their fields in a village in the remote northeast, a police source said on Thursday
The first round of interactions took place till late on Monday night, while the second session continued on Tuesday