cross-referenced news and research resources about
Chibok, Borno state, Nigeria
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Daily Sun
April 19, 2018
“The commemoration of the anniversary of Chibok girls in Boko Haram captivity is not a mere ritual, nor an annual event that brings people together for merriment, but a gathering of concerned Nigerians who share the pain and who will never sit back to watch Nigerian's children dehumanised by terrorists.
Lasentinel
April 19, 2018
Nearly four years after militants attacked a rural school and kidnapped over 200 girls in a well-planned raid, the nightmare has ended for about 100 Nigerian girls. Young women now, they study at a private school and grapple with life as a former “Chibok girl.” “I'm back, as they say,” Hauwa Ntakai told aÃâà...
HeraldLIVE
April 18, 2018
Nigeria is facing calls to establish how many of the missing Chibok schoolgirls are still alive, after claims that nearly 100 of them might have lost their lives in captivity. Parents of the missing girls and supporters gathered in the small town in remote northeast Nigeria at the weekend to mark the fourthÃâà...
News24
April 17, 2018
Nigeria is facing calls to establish how many of the missing Chibok schoolgirls are still alive, after claims that nearly 100 of them may have lost their lives in captivity. Parents of the missing girls and supporters gathered in the small town in remote northeast Nigeria on Saturday to mark the fourth anniversaryÃâà...
AllAfrica.com
April 17, 2018
The abduction of 276 final year students of the Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok in Borno State on 14th April 2014, became a great turning point in the nation's military campaign to eradicate the Boko Haram Islamist terrorist organisation which has held Nigeria to ransom in the past nine years.
Daily Nation
April 16, 2018
A Nigerian journalist with links to the Islamist group Boko Haram has claimed only 15 out of the 112 missing Chibok girls are still alive. ... Mr Salkida said the administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan had asked him to negotiate for the release of the Chibok schoolgirls two weeks after they wereÃâà...
Premium Times
April 16, 2018
Four years after Boko Haram insurgents abducted over 200 schoolgirls in Chibok, Borno State, North-east Nigeria, parents of those still in captivity are still in grief, saying they would seek the intervention of the United Nations. The parents have also vowed to head to the International Court of CriminalÃâà...
News24
April 12, 2018
As Nigeria prepares to mark the four year anniversary of the Chibok kidnapping, a recent copycat attack serves as a reminder that Boko Haram is anything but defeated. Since coming into power in 2015, President Muhammadu Buhari's administration has claimed Boko Haram is "technically" defeated andÃâà...
The Nation Newspaper
March 31, 2018
Apex northern socio-cultural group, the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) has called on the federal government to intensify efforts at rescuing Dapchi school girl, Leah Sharibu and the remaining Chibok girls still under Boko Haram captivity. ACF, which greets Christians for the Easter celebration, alsoÃâà...
Daily Post Nigeria
March 29, 2018
The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) on Wednesday urged Christians to pray for the release of Leah Sharibu and the remaining Chibok girls in Boko Haram captivity. Sharibu, a Christian girl, was among the students abducted from Government Technical College in Dapchi, Yobe State on February 19,Ãâà...
SaharaReporters.com
March 24, 2018
No fewer than 30 parents of yet-to-return Chibok girls had arrived the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library, Abeokuta, to visit a former president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo. The dreaded Boko Haram sect had invaded Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State and took away 276 pupilsÃâà...
Face2Face Africa
March 23, 2018
As many Nigerians celebrate the release of the over a hundred schoolgirls kidnapped by the notorious Islamist group Boko Haram in February, the #BringBackOurGirls movement formed to advocate for the release of the abducted Chibok girls are not happy. The Nigerian government promised and ensuredÃâà...
Times LIVE
March 21, 2018
Her own daughter, Rifkatu, is still missing nearly four years after she and over 200 of her classmates were kidnapped by Boko Haram militants from their school in Chibok about 275 km (170 miles) away. Then four weeks ago, Boko Haram kidnapped 110 girls from a school in Dapchi in the biggest massÃâà...
CHANNELS TELEVISION
March 21, 2018
Nigerians on Wednesday took to social media to call for the release of schoolgirls abducted in Chibok, Borno State after 110 abducted Dapchi schoolgirls were returned. The Dapchi schoolgirls were abducted by Boko Haram insurgents from a Government Girls Science Technical College (GGSTC) inÃâà...
africanews
March 14, 2018
The movement has been at the forefront of a campaign to free the 276 Chibok girls seized in a similar fashion in April 2014. It gave the government a seven-day deadline to free the remaining 112 Chibok girls and the 110 seized in Dapchi last month, or else face a lawsuit on the grounds of criminalÃâà...
AllAfrica.com
March 13, 2018
The United States Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, arrived Abuja, Nigeria's capital Monday, where he pledged the support of the U.S. in securing the quick release of the Dapchi and remaining Chibok schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram terrorists and expressed hope that a deal for their release would beÃâà...
The Nation Newspaper
March 9, 2018
It was with rude shock that Nigerians and indeed the entire world recently received the news of the abduction of over a hundred girls from their school in Dapchi, Yobe State. The incident, just like that of Chibok girls of 2014 was said to have been carried out by suspected members of the Boko Haram sect.
Daily Trust
March 9, 2018
At the celebration of International Women's Day by the IndustriAll Nigeria in Lagos, he said those who abducted the Dapchi girls and the Chibok girls ... sensitivity and accountability on the part of all Nigerian and African leaders to the plight of African girls including Dapchi and Chibok abducted girls.
The Punch
March 8, 2018
Boko Haram had earlier on April 14, 2014, abducted over 200 pupils of the Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State, while more than half of them had either escaped or secured their release through negotiations. Olujimi, who presented the motion on Garba's behalf, said the Senate wasÃâà...
SaharaReporters.com
March 7, 2018
Shuibu Moni, a Boko Haram commander who was freed in exchange for some 82 kidnapped Chibok girls in a deal facilitated by the Swedish government last May has issued fresh threats against the Nigerian state. A video exclusively obtained by Saharareporters shows Moni and some members of hisÃâà...
New Telegraph Newspaper
March 6, 2018
But unlike the Chibok scenario during the Goodluck Jonathan government when politics took centre stage on whether the 276 girls were kidnapped or not, the Dapchi case is not in dispute. The Federal Government had admitted that 110 girls were kidnapped from the school. The Federal GovernmentÃâà...
Vanguard
March 3, 2018
On Monday, February 19, 2018, Boko Haram insurgents invaded Government Girls Science Technical College in Dapchi, Yobe state, abducting 110 of the 906 student population. It was yet another tragic day for a nation that is yet to get over a similar incident that took place on April 14, 2014 in Chibok,Ãâà...
Xinhua
March 2, 2018
File photo shows a released Chibok girl hugs her relative in Abuja, Nigeria, May 20, 2017. Four years ago more than 200 schoolgirls, also from an all-girl college, were abducted by Boko Haram in the northeastern town of Chibok.(Xinhua/Olatunji Obasa). ABUJA, March 2 (Xinhua) -- A faction of Nigeria'sÃâà...
Daily Post Nigeria
March 2, 2018
Former President, Goodluck Jonathan, has rubbished a statement credited to the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed that his administration delayed in responding to the abduction of Chibok girls. Mohammed, while speaking at the foundation laying ceremony of the Editors' plazaÃâà...
Vanguard
March 2, 2018
Though in the Chibok incident, which presents similar scenario with the Dapchi abduction, some of the girls reportedly managed to escape from their captors. And while about 100 were freed, in exchange for Boko Haram militants following a negotiations said to have been brokered by the InternationalÃâà...
CHANNELS TELEVISION
February 28, 2018
A former Director of Operations in Army Headquarters, Major-General Garba Wahab (Rtd), has said attributed the Dapchi schoolgirls kidnap to Nigeria failing to draw lessons from the earlier Chibok girls kidnap. Wahab, who featured as a guest on Channels Television's Sunrise Daily, was visibly notÃâà...
News24
February 27, 2018
Lagos - The abduction of 111 schoolgirls by jihadist militants in Nigeria last week comes four years after the same group kidnapped 276 girls from Chibok, a case that shocked the world. In the latest mass kidnapping, Boko Haram snatched the girls on February 19 from their boarding school in theÃâà...
Quartz
February 25, 2018
In April 2014, the sleepy town of Chibok in Borno State was thrust first into national, and then international limelight when 276 female students from a local high school were abducted by the Islamist terrorist group, Boko Haram. It's difficult to remember now how slowly news of the abduction trickled out.
America Magazine
February 23, 2018
Other Chibok girls were given the chance to study in the United States. They, too, have demonstrated the indomitable spirit of the African woman and shone in their studies. One of these women, Sa'a, captured this spirit when she said: “My dream is I want to become a doctor, by God's grace. And I'm workingÃâà...
Newsweek
February 21, 2018
RTX4BQ6L Girls said to have been kidnapped from the northeast Nigerian town of Chibok are seen in an unknown location in Nigeria in this video still obtained on January 15. More than 90 schoolgirls are now feared missing following an attack on Monday by Islamic militant group Boko Haram in a villageÃâà...
News24
February 20, 2018
Kano - A Boko Haram attack on a girls school in northeast Nigeria has revived fears of another Chibok-style mass kidnapping, even as the government claims the jihadists are on the verge of defeat. Dozens of heavily armed fighters stormed Dapchi village in the Bursari area of Yobe state on MondayÃâà...
BBC News
February 13, 2018
A Nigerian court has jailed a Boko Haram militant involved in the 2014 kidnapping of the Chibok girls. Haruna Yahaya, 35, is the first member of the group to be sentenced for playing a part in the mass abduction. The former trader, who confessed to his role in taking the 276 schoolgirls, argued he wasÃâà...
CNN International
December 31, 1999
President Buhari said though it has taken so long to secure their release, government was doing its best to free the remaining Chibok girls from their abductors. He said the return of over 100 schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram from Dapchi, a town in Nigeria's Yobe State should reassure parents inÃâà...
The Punch
December 31, 1999
Boko Haram had earlier on April 14, 2014, abducted over 200 pupils of the Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State, while more than half of them had either escaped or secured their release through negotiations. Olujimi, who presented the motion on Garba's behalf, said the Senate wasÃâà...
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