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Nigeria: Govt Hires U.S. Lobby Firm to Launder Image Over Chibok Abductions
Premium Times, 27 June 2014
The Nigerian government has come under local and international condemnation over its far-from-impressive handling of the Chibok abduction. Read more »
Nigerian Government Looking for an Image Makeover
The Nigerian government has signed a $1.2 million contract with a Washington public relations firm to change "the international and local media narrative" around efforts to rescue school girls abducted by Boko Haram, according to a contract document signed June 13, as reported by a Washington, DC-based newspaper, The Hill. Reporting the story in Nigeria, Premium Times calls the contract an attempt by President Goodluck Jonathan's administration "to whitewash its inept handling" of the kidnapping. Lanny Davis, an executive vice president involved in the contract at the firm, Levick was a senior aide to former President Bill Clinton.
Relatives of kidnapped Chibok students during a #BringBackOurGirls demonstration in Abuja.
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After a visit to Nigeria earlier this month. U.S. Rep. Chris Smith, Republican from New Jersey who chairs the House panel that oversees international human rights and Africa, ... Read more »
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A group of women, girls and young men have been abducted in Borno by gunmen suspected to be members of Boko Haram, villagers and security sources have said. Read more »
