U.S. President, Donald Trump Hosts Two Chibok Girls
The U.S. President, Donald Trump, and his daughter, Ivanka, met with two Chibok girls, Joy Bishara and Lydia Pogu on June 27 at the White House. Bishara, 20, and Pogu, 19 were among 57 girls who escaped from Boko Haram in Borno by jumping off the back of a truck in 2014. The 57 were […]
82 Chibok girls reunited with families in Nigeria
A group of the “Chibok girls” freed from Nigeria’s Boko Haram militants have been reunited with their families. The 82 girls, who were part of a huge group kidnapped from their school in 2014, are in the care of security services in the capital, Abuja. Their parents travelled by bus through the night to meet […]
82 Chibok Schoolgirls Released in Swap for Detained Boko Haram Suspects
Nigerian authorities have said 82 Chibok schoolgirls have been released into military custody in the north of the country. The girls have received medical attention and are to be flown to Abuja to meet the president. A military and a civilian militia source in Banki, near the Nigerian border with Cameroon, said “at least 80” […]
Boko Haram Attacks Borno Communities, Kidnaps 10 – Official
Suspected Boko Haram members attacked communities in Konduga Local Government Area of Borno State kidnapping 10 people, an official has said. Ibrahim Abdullahi, the Commandant of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, in Borno, said the terrorists invaded Konduga and abducted four women and six youths. Mr. Abdullahi told the News Agency of […]
‘I Just Want to Go Home’, Says First Chibok Schoolgirl Rescued From Boko Haram
Amina Ali and her baby were rescued in May, more than two years after being kidnapped by Boko Haram The first of more than 200 abducted Chibok schoolgirls to be rescued from Boko Haram after two years in captivity in northeast Nigeria said on Tuesday in her first interview that she just wants to go […]
Nigeria Says Boko Haram Had Ties With Al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden
The dreaded Nigeria-based terrorist group, Boko Haram, established links with some international terrorist groups, including Al-Qaeda, the Presidential Fact-Finding Committee on the Abducted Female Students of Government Secondary School, Chibok, has said. The committee stated this in its report submitted to former President Goodluck Jonathan before he left office. The 50-page report, which details were […]
Boko Haram – ‘Chibok girls forced to kill’
Source have told us that some of the girls captured last year by jihadists from the Nigerian town of Chibok have been forced to kill people. Three women who say they were held in the same camps as the girls said Boko Haram militants tied up Christian men. The girls then slit their throats. The […]
Nigerian army frees 160 from Boko Haram
Nigeria’s military says it has freed another sizeable group of people during its offensive against Boko Haram militants in the vast Sambisa forest. Kano, Nigeria — Nigerian troops rescued an additional 160 women and children from Boko Haram within days after they found hundreds of other hostages, the military said Thursday. “We are still working […]
