Nigerian parents lashed out on Tuesday at the government’s failure to rescue scores of schoolgirls kidnapped two weeks ago by Boko Haram Islamists, as a local leader claimed the hostages had been sold as wives abroad. “May God curse every one of those…
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Nigerian soldiers and vigilantes are hunting “around the clock” for the Islamist fighters holding scores of schoolgirls hostage, an official said Monday, as locals claimed the number kidnapped was far higher than first reported. The mass abduction blamed…
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CNNi talks to Africa analyst Jacob Zenn with the Jamestown Foundation about how Nigeria is handling Boko Haram.
Gunmen in northern Nigeria set fire to a staff residential building at a girls’ secondary school on Sunday but the 195 students sleeping in their nearby dormitories were unharmed, police and a teacher said. The attack in Bauchi state came less than…
Parents of the school girls yet to be released or escape from Islamist sect Boko Haram that abducted 129 secondary…
Leader of the Boko Haram Islamists sect Abubakar Shekau has claimed responsibility for a bombing in Nyanyan, Abuja, which led…
Nigerian Islamist militant group Boko Haram is still holding 85 girls it abducted from a raid on a secondary school in northeastern Borno state this week, although the other 44 were free, the state government said on Saturday. Monday’s mass abduction…
The leader of Nigeria’s Boko Haram Islamists Abubakar Shekau claimed responsibility for a bombing in Nigeria’s capital that killed at least 75 people, in a video message obtained by AFP on Saturday. “We are the ones that carried out the attack in Abuja…
Another 14 Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram Islamists in the northeast have escaped, leaving 85 missing on Saturday after an attack that has sparked global outrage, an official said. The unprecedented mass abduction of 129 teenage girls…
The Nigerian military on Friday admitted that most of the 129 girls abducted by Boko Haram Islamists from their school in the country’s restive northeast remained missing. The military had claimed on Wednesday that all but eight of the 129 girls snatched…
Some of the abducted students of Girls Government Secondary School, Chibok in Borno State yesterday narrated how they escaped from…
A Nigerian school principal on Thursday denied military reports that most of the girls kidnapped by Islamist gunmen were now safe, as parents continued a desperate search for 115 children still held captive. A defence ministry spokesman, Chris Olukolade…
Recently, 57 students were killed in their sleep by the terrorist group, Boko Haram, in the state of Yobe and 20 girls were also abducted by the terrorists. Following this development, mothers across major cities of Nigeria took to the streets in protest…
Heavily armed Boko Haram Islamists kidnapped more than 100 girls from a school in northeast Nigeria, sparking a search by soldiers to track down the attackers, a security source and witnesses said. The unprecedented mass abduction in Borno state came…
Desperate Nigerian parents pleaded Wednesday for an end to their “nightmare” after Boko Haram Islamists kidnapped more than 100 girls from a secondary school in the embattled northeast. The mass abduction by heavily armed insurgents from the Chibok…
Heavily armed Boko Haram Islamists kidnapped more than 100 girls from a school in northeast Nigeria, sparking a search by soldiers to track down the attackers, a security source and witnesses said Tuesday. The unprecedented mass abduction in Borno state…
A bombing at a bus station packed with morning commuters on the outskirts of Nigeria’s capital killed 71 people and wounded 124 on Monday, with the president blaming the attack on Boko Haram Islamists. The explosion rocked the Nyanya station south of…
Suspected Boko Haram Islamists killed at least 60 people in Nigeria’s troubled northeastern Borno state close to the border with Cameroon, a local official said. “The attackers, who are no doubt Boko Haram insurgents, attacked Amchaka and nearby villages…
Can investors get rich by backing Nigerian agriculture? An increasingly loud chorus of voices say that answering this question may be the most pressing challenge facing Africa’s most populous country, ahead of defeating Boko Haram Islamists or curbing…