Nigeria:   Borno Govt Confirms New Figures of Abducted Girls

Daily Trust, 23 April 2014

The Borno state government yesterday agreed with the new figures of the abducted Chibok school girls as given by the affected parents of the students and principal of the… Read more »

Nigeria:   Girls' Abduction - Principals to Meet Over Students Safety

Daily Trust, 23 April 2014

Following the abduction of students by gunmen, Kogi State chapter of the All Nigeria Confederation of Principals of Secondary Schools (ANCOPSS) said it will hold a meeting with… Read more »

Nigeria:   Stop Search or We Kill Abducted Girls, Insurgents Warn

Leadership, 23 April 2014

This is not the best of times for the parents of the abducted final year students of the Government Girls' Secondary School (GGSS), Chibok, Borno State, as suspected members of the… Read more »

Nigeria:   Stop Playing Politics With Insecurity - Senator Walid Jibril

Leadership, 22 April 2014

The national secretary of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Board of Trustees, Senator Walid Jibril has called on Nigerians to stop playing politics with the insecurity in the… Read more »

Nigeria:  Deep Inside Sambisa Forest - A Story About the Abducted Girls

ThinkAfricaPress, 22 April 2014

The following is a work of fiction based on real life events. On the night of 15 April, armed men suspected to belong to the Islamist militant group Boko Haram abducted several… Read more »

Nigeria:   Muslim Women Protest Abduction of School Girls

Daily Trust, 23 April 2014

The women wing of Nasrul-lahi Fathi Society of Nigeria (NASFAT) in Kwara State yesterday staged a peaceful protest over the abduction of over 200 female students of Government… Read more »

Nigeria:   Aregbesola Says Abduction of School Girls in Borno Barbaric

Leadership, 22 April 2014

Gov Rauf Aregbesola of Osun on Tuesday described the abduction of about 100 school girls by insurgents in Borno State as "barbaric". Read more »

Nigeria:   Borno Parents Claim Under-Reporting of Abducted Girls

CAJ News, 22 April 2014

CONTROVERSY continues to trail the number of students that were abducted by terrorists from the Government Secondary School in Chibok in the Borno State. Read more »

Nigeria:   Parents of Kidnapped Students Lament As Principal Says 230 Girls Now Missing

Premium Times, 22 April 2014

"I have not seen my dear daughter, she is a good girl, we plead with government to help rescue her and her friends; we pray nothing happens to her." Read more »

Nigeria:   Abducted Girls of the GGSC Chibok Still Missing - Parents

Leadership, 21 April 2014

About 230 of out the estimated 270 abducted female students of the Government Girls Secondary School (GGSC) Chibok in Borno are still missing. Read more »

Nigeria:   Mass Abduction Latest - 234 Girls Taken, Not 129 - Parents, Principal

Leadership, 22 April 2014

Controversy is surrounding the abduction of female students by the Boko Haram sect from the Government Girls Secondary School (GGSS) in Chibok, Borno State last week, as the actual… Read more »

Nigeria:   Fresh Confusion Over Abducted Schoolgirls - Parents Insist 234 Girls Still Missing

Premium Times, 21 April 2014

There was confusion on Monday in Chibok, Borno state, when parents of abducted schoolgirls at Government Girls Secondary School insisted that 234 girls abducted from the school… Read more »

Nigeria:   234 Students Missing, Not 129, Parents of Chibok Govt Secondary School Claim

This Day, 21 April 2014

234 students are missing and not 129 as earlier reported, the parents of the abducted schoolgirls of Government Secondary School, Chibok claimed Monday, when the State Governor,… Read more »

Nigeria:   APC Seeks Release of Abducted School Girls

This Day, 21 April 2014

Ahead of tomorrow's expanded security meeting of governors of the 36 states and President Goodluck Jonathan in Abuja, the All Progressives Congress (APC) has called on the… Read more »

Nigeria:   Abducted School Girls Latest - What We Saw in Sambisa Forest - Parents

Vanguard, 22 April 2014

Parents of school girls abducted last Tuesday from Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State by Boko Haram terrorists, yesterday, recounted their experience in the… Read more »

Nigeria:   Concerns Rise for Dozens of Abducted Schoolgirls

DW, 19 April 2014

The Nigerian state government has said 44 schoolgirls abducted by Islamist militants have escaped, while 85 are still being held hostage. The statement follows conflicting reports… Read more »

Nigeria:   Gunmen Attack Girls' School Staff

Premium Times, 20 April 2014

Police say there has been a spate of attacks by unknown gunmen in Bauchi, one of the relatively peaceful states in the northeast. Read more »

Nigeria:   Gunmen Kill Five-Year-Old in School Attack

Daily Trust, 20 April 2014

Police in Bauchi State said suspected gunmen set ablaze some houses in the staff quarters of Government Girls Secondary School (GGSS), Yana, killing a five-year old girl on Sunday. Read more »

Nigeria:   14 More Kidnapped Female Students Escape, 44 Now Accounted for - Borno Commissioner

Premium Times, 18 April 2014

The Borno State Commissioner for Education, Musa Kubo, on Friday said 14 of the abducted students of Government Girls Secondary School, GGSS, Chibok, escaped from their captors and… Read more »

Nigeria:   Another 14 Abducted School Girls Escape From Camp On Friday

Leadership, 18 April 2014

Another 14 of the abducted students of Government Girls' Secondary School (GGSS), Chibok, on Friday escaped from the den of suspected Boko Haram members who abducted over 100… Read more »

Nigeria:   Abducted Students - 14 More Girls Escape

Leadership, 19 April 2014

Another set of 14 girls that escaped Boko Haram captivity were yesterday found wandering in the bush and were helped by good samaritans back to their families in the Chibok town,… Read more »

Nigeria:   Pope Francis Prays for Peace in Nigeria, Ukraine, Syria

This Day, 21 April 2014

Worried by the rising wave of insecurity occasioned by rounds of terrorists attacks in Nigeria, Pope Francis while celebrating Easter Sunday yesterday specially devoted a session… Read more »

Nigeria:   Who Will Save the Children?

Premium Times, 21 April 2014

It's Easter weekend and I'm driving down the Pacific coast, savoring the ocean breeze and listening to Kirk Franklin's Lean On Me. At this time of the year, I tend to get a little… Read more »

Nigeria:   Another Girls' School Attacked

Daily Trust, 21 April 2014

Unidentified gunmen attacked the Government Girls Secondary School in Yana, Bauchi State yesterday, where they set fire to staff homes and seized the principal's car. Read more »

Nigeria:   Schoolgirls Abduction - These Are My Worst Days, Says Gov Shettima

This Day, 20 April 2014

Borno State Governor, Alhaji Kashim Shettima, Sunday described the last one week as the worst days of his life as two more girls escaped from the captivity of their abductors. Read more »

Nigeria:   Boko Haram Big Trouble in Borno - 100 Kidnapped Girls in the Sambisa Forest

Vanguard, 20 April 2014

April 15, 2014 will ever remain fresh in the minds of the people of Chibok in Chibok Local Government Area of Borno State as a result of Boko Haram insurgents invasion of the… Read more »

Nigeria:   14 Schoolgirls Escape From Boko Haram

Daily Trust, 19 April 2014

A total of 44 girls have so far escaped from the hands of suspected members of the Boko Haram, who kidnapped 129 female students from the Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok,… Read more »