NNPA NEWSWIRE — The two abductees were found at a military medical facility. The 276 girls were abducted from their school dormitories April 14, 2014 by...
(Business Week) – Persistent violence in northeast Nigeria is undermining the government’s claims to have brokered a cease-fire with Islamist militant group Boko Haram. A lack...
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — The identity of what could be the first “Chibok girl” purportedly freed by Islamic extremists in Nigeria remains in doubt. A...
(Reuters) – Some of the schoolgirls abducted by militant group Boko Haram may never return home, Nigeria’s influential former president Olusegun Obasanjo said, in some...
MICHELLE FAUL, Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria’s leader vowed on Thursday to “do everything possible to bring our daughters home,” referring to the mass...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States has deployed 80 military personnel to Chad to help locate the nearly 300 girls kidnapped in Nigeria last month,...
(The Washington Post) – They stood in the sun, sweating. They clutched homemade guns. Some had poisoned-tipped spears. Others wore camouflage or brandished amulets. All...
(CNN) — Nigeria and four neighboring countries will share intelligence and border surveillance in the hunt for more than 200 Nigerian girls still held by Boko Haram,...
by James Wright Special to the NNPA from The Washington Informer The Congressional Black Caucus lent its voice to the growing global outrage about the...
by Barrington M. Salmon Special to the NNPA from The Washington Informer The kidnapping of 276 schoolgirls by Islamist rebels three weeks ago has frayed...
(BBC) – Relatives and friends of the abducted Nigerian schoolgirls have identified some of them from a video released by Boko Haram Islamist militants. The...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist Long after completing his 8-year presidency, William Jefferson Clinton acknowledged that he should have intervened in the conflict in Rwanda....
By Oluwa Tosin Adegbola NNPA Guest Columnist The cold facts stare us in our face: Fact 1: More than 300 girls were abducted from the...
(CNN) — He is the face of terror. A ruthless leader with a twisted ideology. And the sadistic architect of a campaign of mayhem and misery....
(The Washington Post) – No one knows how old he is. Some say 35. Some say 36. Others think he’s 44. Twice he was believed dead, and twice he reemerged...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House says the United States is doing what it can to help find and free nearly 300 Nigerian girls kidnapped...
HARUNA UMAR, Associated Press MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — The number of kidnapped schoolgirls missing in Nigeria has risen to 276, up by more than 30...
