Chibok
16 Apr
Ten years ago today, 276 girls were abducted in the night from their school in Chibok, northeastern Nigeria.
10 Apr
Ten years have passed but whenever Mary Shettima hears footsteps at the door, she thinks her kidnapped daughter has come home. Yana Galang is waiting for her daughter too -- she keeps her clothes laid out ready for her return. A decade after Nigeria's most infamous mass abduction, almost 100 of the 276 Chibok girls…
24 Mar
Just months after 276 girls were kidnapped from Government Girls Secondary School in Chibok, Borno State on April14 2014, the Federal Government partnered with stakeholders to set up a Safe School Initiative as a quick response to the crisis...
18 Mar
Close to 10 years after the gruesome abductions of 276 female students at Government Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State, Nigeria has become a notorious destination for crimes of mass abductions, especially of school going youngsters.
11 Mar
Security forces yesterday continued to search forests and set up roadblocks in the Northwest of the country in an attempt to find hundreds of kidnapped schoolchildren, as calls for an overhaul of the security hierarchy intensify.
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Suspected Boko Haram terrorists in gun trucks and motorcycles have killed 12 persons in two communities of Chibok Local Council of Borno State.
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Twelve persons have been killed in a fresh Boko Haram attack on Gartamawa community in Chibok Local Government Area of Borno State. The Borno State Police spokesperson, Nahum Daso, who confirmed the attack said it happened in the evening of Monday 1 January 2024. According to Daso, two others were injured when the gunmen drove…
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Federal Government has said that it will empower Chibok community in Borno State with farming equipment and other skill acquisition accessories worth N210 million naira toward revitalising the economy of the area, after the unfortunate unsettling of the community in 2014, the kidnapping of school girls from Girls Secondary School, Chibok Minister of Women Affairs,…
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