Tag: schoolgirls
‘They said they’ll shoot’: Nigerian schoolgirls recount kidnap ordeal
Gunmen have freed all 279 girls kidnapped from a boarding school in northwest Nigeria, officials said on Tuesday, as victims described how their abductors...
Gunmen kidnap 300 schoolgirls in increasingly lawless northwest Nigeria
An operation to rescue more than 300 girls kidnapped in Nigeria had failed to pinpoint their location by late on Friday, almost 24 hours...
Nigerian schoolgirls rescued
The Nigerian military rescued 76 schoolgirls and recovered the bodies of two others after they went missing during a Boko Haram attack...
ISS: The Chibok girls – Nigeria’s side of the story
The kidnapping of schoolgirls from the small town of Chibok in Borno state, north-eastern Nigeria, close to two months ago has caused...
Obama says kidnapping of Nigerian girls shows man’s “darkest impulses”
U.S. President Barack Obama issued a somber warning on Wednesday that the kidnapping of Nigerian girls and sectarian conflicts worldwide are a...
France offers to send agents to Nigeria for kidnapped girls
France on Wednesday offered to send security service agents to Nigeria to help recover more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped by Islamist militant...
U.N. warns Nigeria’s Boko Haram over selling schoolgirls as slaves
The United Nations warned Islamist Boko Haram militants on Tuesday that there was no statute of limitations if they carried out their...
Nigeria offers $300,000 reward for information on kidnapped girls
Nigerian police offered a $300,000 reward on Wednesday for information leading to the rescue of more than 200 schoolgirls abducted by Islamist...
Nigeria local authorities say most of abducted schoolgirls still missing
Authorities in Nigeria's northeast Borno state denied on Thursday a statement by the armed forces which had said most of the more...
