Those who joined the parents at the viewing session included the school’s teachers, security officers and female students, among whom were some of those kidnapped but who escaped
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He said with the support of international bodies and other countries, the termination of the activities of the dreaded sect members would also lead to the revelation of all their collaborators
Some of the 276 Nigerian girls snatched from their school under cover of darkness appeared to re-emerge in a propaganda video shot by Boko Haram released on Monday
Shettima added that he did not think the girls had been taken across the border to Chad or Cameroon
The Nigeria Councillors’ Forum on Sunday said it had postponed its 6th National Conference scheduled for May 14 in sympathy…
The position was contained in a remark by Babayi, who was the guest speaker at the inauguration of the newly-elected executives of the Niger State chapter of the organization and the commissioning of a newly-constructed administrative block by the state chapter of CAN in Minna, the Niger State capital
From the records sourced by Saturday Sun, 46 of the escapees were Christians, while only seven were Muslims
It has been claimed Nigerian security forces failed to respond to warnings about Boko Haram’s planned abduction of the 276 girls from a boarding school in Chibok in the northern Borno State on April 14
After independently verifying information based on multiple interviews with credible sources, Amnesty International on Friday revealed that the Nigerian security forces had more than four hours of advance warning about the attack but did not do enough to stop it
The meeting, on the sidelines of the ongoing World Economic Forum on Africa, was a follow-up to talks held on wednesday between Entwistle and Nigerian security officials on the United States offer of assistance
This was contained in a statement issued by Major General Chris Olukolade, the Director of Defence Information, in Abuja on Thursday
CAN said 353 students disappeared “from the school into the thin air”, a figure that runs contrary to the 234 that had been reported days after the abduction
Nigeria’s bid to locate and free the 234 secondary schools girls was taken a notch further with President Jonathan requesting for assistance from the United Kingdom and China
The special prayer will hold on May 17, 2014 at the Office of the Wife of the Governor inside the Kwara State Government House
Usman said the members of the dreaded sect were attacking a village when she jumped out of the truck in which she was with others and ran into the bush
It also quoted Hague as saying that UK had set up the Preventing Sexual Violence Initiative and a global summit on the issue would hold in London next month
The company noted that the carnage experienced from the acts of terrorism presently being experienced in the country was robbing the North of the required human resources needed to propel the region into the next level of its development
The offer from President Barack Obama, which was conveyed to President Jonathan by the United States Secretary of State, John Kerry, in a telephone conversation, which began at 3:30pm, included the deployment of US security personnel and assets to work with their Nigerian counterparts in the search and rescue operation
The President last week announced the constitution of the committee headed by a former Director of the Directorate Military Intelligence, Brigadier General Ibrahim Sabo (rtd), to ascertain among other things the actual number of girls abducted
Yar’Adua made the call on Monday in Katsina at the late President Umaru Yar’adua’s Memorial Lecture entitled: “An Evaluation and Contributions of Governor Umaru Musa Yar’adua’s Educational Development in Katsina State