April 14, 2014 is a day that will live in infamy in Nigeria’s history. On April 14, 2020, it would be six years since the abduction of 276 female students from an all-girl secondary school in the town of Chibok, Borno State.

Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Matthew Kukah, and the Prelate of the Methodist Church (Nigeria), Dr. Samuel Uche, have lamented that the Chibok girls and Leah Sharibu are still in the hands of their captors while another Christmas is celebrated.

A faith based Non Governmental Organization (NGO), Nurturing Fitrah Foundation (NFF) has engaged teenage girls in vocational and skill acquisition training as a way of bringing out their potentials...

The recent abduction of six students and two employees of Engravers College in Kaduna, on October 3, 2019, has been described...

Former Nigerian president Goodluck Jonathan said claims by former UK Prime Minister David Cameron that his government rejected help to rescue the abducted Chibok girls were untrue. "He (Cameron) never called me on the phone to offer any help," Jonathan said in a statement. "On the contrary, I am the one that reached out to…

There seem to be no answers to the multiplicity of burgeoning questions on the state of the country, characterized by heightened security challenges, deep-seated ethnic distrust, lamentations, asphyxiating...

A journalist and former correspondent at CNN Isha Sesay said Nigeria and the world deserted the families of the Chibok 112 girls still in Boko Haram incarceration. "The families of the 112 girls feel abandoned," Sesay said during The Daily Show with Trevor Noah on Thursday. "They feel utterly abandoned and forgotten by the world,…

After more than five years Boko Haram terrorists kidnapped some Chibok schoolgirls, the Nigerian Government has said it has no idea about the location of the girls. "It is true that the government has no information on where the captives are held, otherwise it would have seized the location and recovered the girls using all…

Two days ago, Leah Sharibu was 16. For her the birthday can only be remembered and filed away as quickly as possible in the recess of her mind. I am even imagining that her mien must be expressionless so as not to give anything away.

The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has urged faithful to pray for the release of Leah Sharibu and the remaining Chibok girls still in Boko Haram captivity. Its Director, Professor Ishaq Akintola, who made the appeal yesterday in a statement, stated: “We must admit that the continued stay of Leah Sharibu and the Chibok girls in…

The story of the ‘Chibok Girls,’ which has curiously migrated from anxiety to sorrow, has now reached a denouement – of fear and gloom after five years...

There is something obviously unique about governments in Nigeria since 1999. Whatever the party or the individual at the helms of affairs...