Taiwo Kola-Ogunlade, Google’s Communications and Public Affairs Manager for Anglophone West Africa, made this known in a statement in Lagos on Thursday
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Natan Holt, the US Deputy Director at the Office of West African Affairs, Bureau of African Affairs, in Washington, D.C., made the announcement in a teleconference with journalists from across Africa
Buahri also advised them to forget the past and engage in skill acquisition to be self-reliant
A Boko Haram faction released the girls, who had been held captive for three years, in exchange for prisoners
The News Agency of Nigeria recalls that the PDP National Caretaker Committee Chairman, Senator Ahmed Makarfi, had condemned the swap of the girls with some Boko Haram members
He may have rejected the land and the fuel money, but in truth, it is not always that Nigerian police officers are so honoured. Oftentimes, they are chased away by the same people they are asked to protect. Lakanu’s example is instructive
Should the minority Islamic movement of Nigeria, popularly called the Shia Muslim group, take a tip from Lai Mohammed’s gloating and defence of this government action, to decide to abduct 200 innocent girls in order to facilitate the release of some 200 citizens detained in Kaduna since 2015 and their leader and his wife still illegally detained by the FGN?
For example it appears very strange to me that every time the Buhari administration has major issues and they need a distraction a new batch of Chibok girls are suddenly released
In a statement issued in Abuja on Monday, the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said it is patently insensitive for any individual or organization to seek to douse, on the altar of politics, the universal joy that has greeted the release of the 82 girls – the highest number so far freed since their unfortunate abduction under the watch of the PDP over three years ago
Osinbajo said this while receiving a delegation from Borno State, which came to thank President Muhammadu Buhari for the recent release of 82 Chibok girls from Boko Haram captivit
Aleksandra Mosimann, the Communication Coordinator of the ICRC, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja
Guterres, in a statement issued by Stéphane Dujarric, the spokesman for the Secretary-General, in New York on Monday, urged Nigerians to give the girls all the necessary support for their speedy reintegration into the society
Jonathan said in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Minna that the gesture was also a clear demonstration of the Buhari administration to secure the release of all those in captivity
A resignation will afford you an ample time to take proper and unconditional care of yourself and pay all necessary attention to your health. In the same way, it will afford the country which is perceived that you love so much, to have a healthy and a mentally stable leader, a condition which is key for one of the toughest jobs in our land
The commendation came in a statement signed by the Convener of the group, Oby Ezekwesili, in Abuja
A cross section of those interviewed by the News Agency of Nigeria in Chibok specifically commended President Muhammadu Buhari for the gesture
In a press statement released at Ado-Ekiti on Sunday by his Chief Press Secretary, Idowu Adelusi, Fayose said it had become the pastime of the Buhari Presidency that each time it was under fire for under-performing or had serious issues it could not sufficiently explain to the people, “it resorts to flying dubious kites and selling cheap dummies to distract the people and obfuscate the issue at hand”
In a statement by the National Publicity Secretary of National Caretaker Committee of the party, Dayo Adeyeye, in Abuja, it said the capture of the girls by insurgents in 2014 traumatised the entire nation
The President made this known in Abuja on Sunday at a reception organised in honour of the rescued girls who were brought to Abuja after their release on Saturday
UNICEF Nigeria Acting Representative, Pernille Ironside, in a statement obtained by Correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria from the UN in New York, said the girls’ release was “heartening”