The presidency on Monday said it was incapacitated in the rescue of the remaining Chibok school girls because it lacked intelligence report on the girls’ whereabouts. It boasted that if such information on the true location of the girls was at its disposal, the rescue of the girls, believed to still be under the captivity […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari came to power promising Nigerians “change”. Novelist and writer Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani gives five examples of what has changed in Nigeria since 29 May 2015 when he was sworn in. 1. Are we safer? Those of us who travel regularly in Nigeria’s north-east had become used to what should be a 15-minute […]
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As the battle against insurgency continues in Nigeria, United Nations Children Emergency Fund, UNICEF, has disclosed that between 2,000- 7,000 women and girls are still living in abduction and sex slavery in the North East region of the country. In a release to mark the two years from the abduction of 219 Chibok school girls, […]
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In September 2014, a 19-year-old woman whom I will call Aisha was celebrating a friend’s wedding in a small village in north-eastern Nigeria when Boko Haram attacked. The fighters killed the groom and many of the male guests. They abducted Aisha, along with other women, including her sister and the bride. They were taken to […]
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If recent reports are anything to go by, the over 200 secondary school girls kidnapped from Chibok over a year ago are still alive. This much was disclosed by Shehu Sani, the senator representing Kaduna central senatorial district, who insisted that the missing Chibok girls will be found, on the grounds that the federal government […]
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