Letters to the Chibok girls
Last Tuesday made it a year since over 200 school girls were kidnapped from the Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok by members of the Boko Haram sect. If they had not been abducted, quite a number of them would have been rounding off their first year in tertiary institutions across the country. The situation is a tragic, despite this, the world has not lost hope that they will be found.
UN will sanction Boko Haram —Ogwu
NIGERIA’s U.N. envoy says she expects the Security Council to declare Boko Haram a terrorist group and impose sanctions on the al-Qaida-linked extremists who have carried out a wave of deadly attacks and the recent abduction of nearly 300 schoolgirls.
Schools close for abducted girls
MANY schools across the country closed, yesterday, to protest the abductions of schoolgirls by Boko Haram, the government’s failure to rescue them and the killings of 173 teachers by the Islamic extremists in recent years
Our girls will be back, by Prof Adefuye
Nigeria has been in the news for the past couples of weeks. We hosted the World Economic Forum Africa (WEFA) May 7 – 9, 2014 in the aftermath of the expansion of the activities of International Terrorist Group called Boko Haram. Let me hereby repeat my President’s gratitude to the one thousand one hundred people from seventy countries who participated at WEFA. We appreciate the confidence reposed in Nigeria by their participation.
NGE faults Chibok schoolgirls’ kidnap, non-passage of 2014 budget, others
The Nigerian Guild of Editors, NGE, has expressed sadness over the abduction of more than 200 schoolgirls in Chibok, Borno State, and called on the Federal Government to live up to its promise to ensure the girls are rescued.
