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International

Army Searching For Chibok Girls Seized By Boko Haram

After the Nigerian army claimed victory over Boko Haram in the armed group's forest stronghold, a commander at the...

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Freed Chibok Girls Not Allowed Home For Christmas, Say Families

Families of the Nigerian “Chibok girls” freed by Islamist group Boko Haram say they are being closely guarded and...

International

Freed Chibok Girls Reunited With Their Families For Christmas

More than 20 Nigerian "Chibok girls" who were released by the Islamist group Boko Haram in October have rejoined their...

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Boko Haram ‘ousted From Sambisa Forest Bastion’

The Nigerian army has driven Boko Haram militants from the last camp in their Sambisa forest stronghold, President...

International

Some 14 Million In Northeast Nigeria May Need Humanitarian Aid In 2017

Around 14 million people will need humanitarian help in the former northeast Nigerian stronghold region of Boko Haram...

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Nigerian Statesman In Corruption Scandal

For the past one week, the Borno-born civil servant has been running from pillar to pole, in a bid to save whatever is...

International

The List of Beautiful Things That Happened In 2016

Portual won the Euros for the first time in history New chemotherapy breakthroughs have increased the 5-year survival...

International

Nigeria’s Presidency Deny Paying $21million Ransom For Chibok Girls Release

The Presidency has described as untrue and unfair media reports which claimed renewed attacks in Borno State were as a...

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The African Woman

“Through her voice I saw a free woman, down on her land, a woman who knew how to kill her own chickens, hunt her own...

Opinion

The Boko Haram Menace And The Inactions of The International Community

The struggle against the evil extremist Boko Haram terrorists in Nigeria suffered a terrible setback last week with the...

International

Nigerians Pay Tribute To ‘war King’ Killed By Boko Haram

Tributes are being paid to a Nigerian army commander nicknamed "war king" after he was killed by Islamist militants...

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Nigerian President Lauds Chibok Girl Rescue

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has saluted the efforts of troops confronting Boko Haram terrorists for rescuing...

International

Nigerian Army Rescues Another Chibok Girl

The Nigerian Army says that it has rescued another one of the girls abducted from the Government Secondary School...

International

Nigeria Investigates Reports That Officials Raped Displaced Women

Nigeria has launched an investigation into reports alleging that government officials raped and sexually abused women...

International

Buhari Orders Investigation Over ‘sex Abuse’

Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered an investigation into allegations of sexual abuse at camps where women...

International

How To Protect the Chibok Girls From Reliving Their Horror

How to protect the Chibok girls from reliving their horror The Chibok girls who moved to the US in 2014 have had to...

International

Nigeria First Lady Aisha Buhari To Campaign For Her Husband

The wife of Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has said she is seeking “the success of my husband’s...

International

Widows of Victims of Nigeria’s Boko Haram Say Aid Overdue

After her husband was killed by a Boko Haram suicide bomber late last year, Hajjagana Mbasaru was forced to pull her...

International

Boko Haram Overruns Nigerian Military Base In Northeast

Nigeria's Boko Haram Islamic extremists have overrun a remote military camp in the northeast, leaving 13 soldiers...