According to international media reports, the singer believes it would be wonderful to give a disadvantaged youngster from the African nation a new start in America. Read more »
The U.S. government has said that it will help Nigeria with information and intelligence needed to locate the missing Chibok girls and fight Boko Haram. Read more »
From a government perspective, the recruitment was supposedly a good deal because it took away the local "troublemakers" and sent them to Iraq for a couple of years, according to ... Read more »
The government has dismissed media reports that militant group Boko Haram is demanding U.S.$50 million as ransom for the release of the abducted Chibok schoolgirls. Read more »
Vaccine programmes can trigger fears of conspiracies and oppression. It's time they got more collaborative, writes Inga Vesper for SciDev.net. Read more »
Humanitarian agencies are concerned that two years have passed and still, the fate of the Chibok girls and many others is unknown. Read more »
At least 219 girls were kidnapped by Boko Haram militants in April 2014. On the second anniverary of their kidnapping, the peacebuilding charity International Alert has released ... Read more »
A new video has surfaced apparently showing proof that some schoolgirls kidnapped in 2014 by Boko Haram militants are still alive. Read more »
Over the past two years, one in five Boko Haram suicide bombers was a child and 75 percent of those children were girls, according to the United Nations Children's Fund report. Read more »
The government and Girls Not Brides have unveiled a national plan to end the practice which affects nearly half of the country's girls. Read more »
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