The JNI, which has the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar as President, also urged government to reclaim forests where bandits hide to terrorise citizens.
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Over 200 Dapchi schoolgirls were kidnapped by Boko Haram Terrorists on February 18, 2018.
Sen. John Akpanudoedehe, Secretary, APC Caretaker and Extra-ordinary Convention Planning Committee, gave the assurance in the party’s Christmas message to Nigerians on Thursday in Abuja.
The Defence Headquarters says the Air Task Force of Operation Lafiya Dole on Monday neutralised scores of Boko Haram terrorists on the outskirts of Dapchi Town in Yobe State.
The Yobe State Police Command on Saturday advised people of the state to be extra-vigilant and volunteer information on suspicious movements in their communities.
President Muhammadu Buhari has reassured Nigerians and the international community of the steadfast commitment of his government to secure the freedom of all children and other victims of abduction by terrorists in the country.
The Senior Special Assistant to the President, Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, says the Buhari administration will not give up on the safe return of Leah Sharibu.
Christian women, civil society groups and other residents of Plateau State on Tuesday held a special prayer session for Leah Sharibu to mark her 16th birthday.
The Principal of the school, Hajiya Adama Abdulkarim, told News Agency of Nigeria on Thursday in Dapchi that, at least, 80 per cent of the students and teachers had resumed.
On the 19th of February this year more than a hundred girls were kidnapped from the Government Girls Science and Technology College, Dapchi in Yobe state by a faction of the dreaded Boko Haram.
Alhaji Lai Mohammed, Minister of Information, who led a high-powered federal government delegation, stated this when they paid a reassurance visit to the family of Leah on Friday in Dapchi, Yobe.
Residents of Dapchi in Yobe say their confidence in government’s ability to secure the release of Leah Sharibu, the lone school girl still in Boko Haram captivity, has been further renewed by the expected visit of a high-powered Federal Government delegation to the town.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that 15-year-old Leah, who was abducted along with 115 other girls last month, is the only student still in the captors’ custody.
Rakiya Adamu, SS2, who was among the lucky few that escaped on February 19, when dozens of her friends and schoolmates were kidnapped, said: “I will not go back to Dapchi again.”
The minister stated this on Sunday in Lagos at a media briefing to give update and clarifications on the released schoolgirls in Dapchi, Yobe state.
The News Agency of Nigeria recalled that 104 of the 110 abducted students of the Government Girls Secondary Technical College, Dapchi, were released by Boko-Haram insurgents on March 21.
In a press statement released by his media office in Abuja on Wednesday, Atiku said he was gladdened by the return of the girls and expressed joy that some families who had been heartbroken will now have the tears wiped from their faces, as will other Nigerians who were distressed by the kidnappings.
Malam Bolaji Abudullahi, APC National Publicity Secretary, said this in a statement in Abuja on Wednesday while expressing delight over the return of the girl by their abductors.
The President is billed to visit Yobe to meet with families of 110 school girls abducted by Boko Haram insurgents at Government Girls’ Science and Technical School, Dapchi, on February 19.
The explanation does not just add up because the more the state government tries to point its fingers elsewhere, the more the rest of the four fingers are asking it to do a little bit of self-examination. By saying the abduction occurred because the military withdrew troops from the area is like playing a broken record, which sends out some fuzzy sound but fails to strike a rhythm.