chibok girls

The United States government through its Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Samantha Jane Power, yesterday, said that it provided Nigeria every information and intelligence needed to rescue the over 200 missing girls abducted from Government Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State...

The Nigerian Senate has urged Service Chiefs to continue with the efforts being made to search for and rescue the 276 abducted Chibok girls. After the meeting, the Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, said efforts to rescue the Chibok girls in the past two years were discussed in...

Bukky Shonibare, one of the founders of the Bring Back Our Girls advocacy group has expressed disappointment with wife of the President, Mrs Aisha Buhari over the launch of her beauty book on the second anniversary of the abduction of Chibok schoolgirls. Mrs Aisha Buhari yesterday launched a...

Senator Shehu Sani has advised the Federal government to explore the option of negotiation and the use of force to rescue the missing Chibok girls. Giving his opinion on Sunrise Daily, Senator Sani recommended three options that the Federal government could explore to ensure the safe return of...

Nigerian Government officials have given approval for a memorial to be held at the Government Secondary School in Chibok, Channels television reports. The event, a prayer session integrating both Muslim and Christian faiths, will mark the second anniversary of the girls’ abduction by Boko Haram...

The Federal Government has started the process of verifying the claim by a suspected female suicide bomber who was intercepted in northern Cameroon on Friday before she could blow herself up that she is one of the 219 schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram in Chibok, Borno State in April 2014. The...

Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai has reveals that the military has entered mop up phase in the fight against Boko Haram that would facilitate the release of captives, including Chibok girls, PM News reports. He made the remark at a meeting in Military Command and Control Center...

Nigerian Air Force has disclosed that it has discovered locations where the Chibok girls are being held captive by the Boko Haram sect. Director of Public Relations of the Air Force, Group Captain Ayodele Famuyiwa, told Channels Television that the areas cannot be attacked for safety of the...

A frontline members of the Bring Back Our Girls Group, Aisha Yesufu, in an interview with The Cable said she was shocked and saddened by the outcome of the meeting the group alongside parents of the missing Chibok girls, had with President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday. She confirmed that the...

Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered that a fresh investigation be conducted about the abduction of 219 girls from Government Secondary in Chibok, Borno State. A panel to investigate the incident is to be named by the National Security Adviser Babagana Munguno, a statement by...

A U.S.-based human rights lawyer and humanitarian worker said on Tuesday that former Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan spent more than $4 million on lobbying against the Bring Back Our Girls movement last year, after Boko Haram abducted hundreds of schoolgirls from the northeast town of...

Wife of the Senate President, Mrs. Toyin Saraki has lamented the continued ordeal of over 200 Chibok school girls kidnapped by the Boko Haram in Borno State, over 590 days ago. Mrs. Saraki who is also the Founder of the Wellbeing Foundation Africa, stated this when she represented the wife of...

Nobel Laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka has described the inability of the federal government to give account of the over 200 missing Chibok girls abducted by Islamist sect, Boko Haram, as a “shame”. Soyinka’s reaction to the federal government’s shortcoming was expressed after a mega-school was...

The absence of a credible leadership in the terror sect, Boko Haram, is putting the Federal Government off negotiating with the group on the release of the Chibok school girls, President Muhammadu Buhari said yesterday in New Delhi, India. President Buhari, who was in India for the just...