Social media sites have exploded with urgent appeals to #bringbackourgirls, ramping up global awareness of the Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram extremists 24 days earlier. The hashtag appeared 412,000 times on Twitter on Thursday alone,…
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Boko Haram’s kidnapping of 276 schoolgirls in Nigeria last month has captured global attention. How common is it for teenagers to be abducted in West Africa and forced into sexual servitude? Where can they end up? WSJ’s Jason Bellini has #TheShortAnswer…
Jake Tapper talks to Pentagon’s Rear Adm. John Kirby about how the U.S. plans to help Nigeria rescue kidnapped girls.
Christian Solidarity International’s Franco Majok gives insight into who is supporting the terrorists
President Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday expressed optimism that the abduction of over 200 school girls in Chibok, Borno, would be…
GE Foundation, the philanthropic organisation of General Electric, has collaborated with Duke University’s Developing World Healthcare Technology Laboratory and Engineering…
Residents and some government officials in Maiduguri have expressed dismay over alleged “ill treatment” of Borno State officials by the…
The Vatican on Thursday appealed for the release of more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped by the Islamist group Boko Haram…
One of Nigeria’s biggest media mogul and former Presidential aspirant Dele Momodu has spoken out against the abduction of the…
The All Progressives Congress, APC, on Thursday faulted the ban on the use of commercial motorcycles known as “achaba” by…
President GOODLUCK Jonathan DECLARING OPEN THE 2014 WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM ON AFRICA IN ABUJA ON THURSDAY (8/5/14). President Goodluck Jonathan…
Imo State Governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha yesterday, predicted that the 2015 presidential poll will end in supplementary elections. The governor,…
The Osun State Government said on Wednesday that there were no plans by Governor Rauf Aregbesola to sack workers, if…
An Islamic group, the Muslim Rights Concern, on Wednesday described the activities of the Boko Haram sect as contradictory to the…
The Northern Governors’ Forum on Wednesday welcomed the U.S. government’s offer of military assistance to Nigeria to help locate and…
The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) in the 19 northern states and FCT has released a statement expressing reservations and…
Gov. Idris Wada of Kogi on Wednesday sacked the Chairman of the State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB), Alhaji Jibrin Usman. Also…
A group of elders from the North-East have told President Goodluck Jonathan in no uncertain terms that his wife, Dame…
Former governor of Sokoto State, Alhaji Attahiru Bafarawa, yesterday donated the sum of N11.5m to the state chapter of the…
Former Head of State, General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd) and former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar have been advised to bury…