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Nigeria: Chibok One Year On - a Day to Remember All Boko Haram's Victims
AI London, 14 April 2015
In September 2014, a 19-year-old woman whom I will call Aisha was celebrating a friend's wedding in a small village in northeastern Nigeria when Boko Haram attacked. The fighters… Read more »
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Nigeria: 365 Days - Emotions As Nigerians Speak On Chibok Girls, Others
Independent (Lagos), 15 April 2015
Will Nigeria's abducted schoolgirls ever be found? This is the question on the lips of many Nigerians as they appeal to government to actualise hopes raised in the last 12 months… Read more »
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Nigeria: Nigerians in London Mark Anniverasy of Chibok Girls Abduction
Guardian, 14 April 2015
A group of activists in London converged outside the Nigerian High Commission on Tuesday to mark the first year anniversary of the kidnapped Chibok schoolgirls in North-East… Read more »
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Nigeria: House Urges Govt to Find Chibok Girls
This Day, 14 April 2015
The House of Representatives on Tuesday passed a resolution urging the federal government to as a matter of urgency fast-track the finding of the more than 200 school girls… Read more »
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Nigeria: Chibok Girls - NSA Assures Sambisa Forest Will Be Liberated By May 29
This Day, 14 April 2015
The National Security Adviser (NSA), Col. Sambo Dasuki (rtd) has assured that on or before the May 29 expiration of the present administration, the Nigerian military would liberate… Read more »
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Nigeria: Chibok Girls - Fayemi Urges Buhari to Make Recovery of Abducted Girls Priority
This Day, 14 April 2015
As it clocked a year yesterday that Boko Haram abducted over 200 children of Chibok Girls High School, Borno State, ex-Governor of Ekiti State , Dr Kayode Fayemi has urged the… Read more »
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Nigeria: Jonathan Committed to Rescuing Chibok Girls - Okonjo-Iweala
Vanguard, 14 April 2015
Dr Ngozi Okonjo- Iweala, Minister of Finance on Tuesday said that government was still committed to ensuring the rescue of the abducted Chibok girls one year after their abduction. Read more »
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Nigeria: One Year After Chibok Kidnapping, One Girl Recounts Surviving Boko Haram
UNFPA, 14 April 2015
One year ago, on the night of 14 April, 276 schoolgirls were seized by Boko Haram insurgents in Chibok, a town in north-eastern Nigeria. Since the kidnapping, 57 of those girls… Read more »
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Nigeria: BringBackOurGirls Still Hopeful One Year On
DW, 13 April 2015
One year ago, more than 200 school girls from Chibok were kidnapped by Boko Haram militants. Parents of the missing girls told DW correspondent in Nigeria, Adrian Kriesch they… Read more »
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Nigeria: Nigeria Marks One Year Since Schoolgirl Kidnappings
DW, 14 April 2015
Nigeria is marking the first anniversary of the abduction of 219 schoolgirls by the Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram. Amnesty International says the group has kidnapped… Read more »
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Nigeria: Chibok Girls - One Year Gone
Independent (Lagos), 13 April 2015
Today, April 14 makes it 365 days, exactly one year the Chibok community of Borno State, North East Nigeria was thrown into confusion. More than 200 secondary school girls had gone… Read more »
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Nigeria: BringBackOurGirls Organises Protest for One-Year Commemoration
Leadership, 10 April 2015
The #BringBackOurGirls group has organised a protest as parts of its one Week Global Action events aimed at commemorating the one year the Chibok girls were abducted from their… Read more »
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Nigeria: Girls Who Escaped Boko Haram Refuse to Be Victims
Al Jazeera, 14 April 2015
It has been one year since more than 200 schoolgirls were abducted in northern Nigeria by Boko Haram. They have been the focus of a worldwide campaign, #BringBackOurGirls, calling… Read more »
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Nigeria: Chibok Girls - Govt, International Efforts Insuficient - Malala
Independent (Lagos), 14 April 2015
As Nigeria and the rest of the world remembers the abduction of over 200 girls from the Government Senior Secondary School, Chibok, exactly one year ago today, the Pakistani… Read more »
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Vanguard, 13 April 2015
Nobel peace laureate Malala Yousafzai on Monday criticised Nigerian and world leaders for not doing enough to help free 219 schoolgirls kidnapped a year ago by Boko Haram… Read more »
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Nigeria: Buhari Speaks On Abducted Chibok Schoolgirls, Pledges Defeat of Boko Haram
APC (Nigeria), 14 April 2015
A day shy of the first anniversary of the abduction of 276 schoolgirls in Chibok, Borno State, President-elect Muhammadu Buhari today pledged that his administration would defeat… Read more »
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Nigeria: Child's Right Activist, Malala, Writes Open Letter to Chibok Girls
Independent (Lagos), 13 April 2015
Child right activist and Nobel Peace laureate, Malala Yousafzai, on Monday criticised Nigerian and world leaders for not doing enough to help free the 219 school girls kidnapped a… Read more »
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Nigeria: Malala Slams World Leaders Over Chibok Schoolgirls
Al Jazeera, 13 April 2015
Pakistani Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai has criticised Nigerian and world leaders for failing to help free 219 schoolgirls kidnapped a year ago by Boko Haram fighters. Read more »
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Nigeria: Buhari Speaks on Chibok Girls
Premium Times, 13 April 2015
Nigeria's President-elect, Muhammadu Buhari, has pledged to do all possible to rescue more than 200 schoolgirls abducted from Chibok in Borno State, by Boko Haram militants, a year… Read more »
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Nigeria: Malala's Open Letter to Chibok Girls
Independent (Lagos), 13 April 2015
An Open Letter from Malala Yousafzai to the Abducted Chibok Schoolgirls Read more »
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Nigeria: We'll Do Our Best to Rescue Chibok Girls - Buhari
Leadership, 14 April 2015
As the world marks one year of the abduction of about 276 schoolgirls from Government Secondary School, Chibok, President-elect Muhammadu Buhari has assured parents of the girls… Read more »
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Nigeria: BBOG Group Calls for Inclusion of Chibok Girls in Transition Programme
Leadership, 7 April 2015
Ahead of the transitional committee meeting of the president scheduled to commence today, the #BringBackOurGirls group has called for the inclusion of the whereabouts of the Chibok… Read more »
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Nigeria: Cyclist Commences Charity Ride to Commemorate Chibok Girls' Abduction
Leadership, 5 April 2015
A Nigerian cyclist, Mr Opeyemi Oyekoya commenced a charity bicycle ride from Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire on Friday, April 3, which will terminate in Lagos, Nigeria on Wednesday April… Read more »
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Nigeria: Jonathan Will Be a Hero When Chibok Girls Return - Ezekwesili
Leadership, 4 April 2015
In the euphoria of a successful conduct of the 2015 general election and the praises coming the way of President Goodluck Jonathan for the conduct of a free and fair election,… Read more »
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Nigeria: BBOG Prepares to Commemorate One Year of Chibok Girls' Abduction
This Day, 3 April 2015
In preparation of the first anniversary of the abduction of the 276 Chibok girls, the Bring Back Our Girls (BBOG) campaign group on Thursday revealed its plans to commemorate the… Read more »
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Nigeria: BBOG Group Wants Chibok Girls Rescued Before May 29
Leadership, 3 April 2015
The #BringBackOurGirls Group (BBOGG), has urged the outgoing and incoming presidents of the country, Goodluck Jonathan and Muhammadu Buhari to work assiduously in unison to ensure… Read more »