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A decade on, Nigeria army rescues abducted Chibok girl

The Peninsula 18 Apr 2024
Nigeria's army said on Thursday troops rescued Lydia Simon with her three children in Gwoza district in northeast Borno State. "Lydia was five months pregnant at the time of her rescue and claimed to be from Pemi Town in Chibok," it said.
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Banwo: China’s Rise to Global Economic Power Not Accidental

This Day 18 Apr 2024
“New roads snake across Nigeria, connecting cities to hinterlands and towns. Ports have been built to boost trade and grow Nigeria’s Gross National Product ...China has bolstered Nigeria’s economy in several key ways.
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Pushed To The Wall Over State Police

This Day 17 Apr 2024
Another example mentioned for the failure or weakness in the present centralized police structure was the inability of the Nigeria Police to contend with the high rate of violent crimes which ravaged major towns all over the country.
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Nigeria’s Tinubu says country will no longer pay ransom to armed gangs

Voa News 16 Apr 2024
Abuja, Nigeria — Nigeria will no longer pay ransom to armed gangs that have plagued the country with kidnapping and extortion, President Bola Tinubu said in an opinion piece published Monday.
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A Decade After The Kidnapping Of The Chibok Girls In Nigeria, What Has The #Bringbackourgirls ...

MENA FN 16 Apr 2024
(MENAFN - The Conversation) In April 2014, the terrorist organization Boko Haram kidnapped 276 high school girls in Chibok , a town in northeast Nigeria. About 57 of the girls managed to escape on ... .
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Joel ‘Kachi Benson: Making A Moving Movie on Missing Chibok Girls

This Day 14 Apr 2024
The technology was relatively new and Benson was among those early birds in Nigeria who experimented with the immersive storytelling style. Benson arrived in the conflict-ridden town of Chibok, in Borno State, with a clear plan in mind.
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Nigeria’s Chibok girls kidnapping: 10 years later, a struggle to move on

Al Jazeera 14 Apr 2024
Rabiat, whose name has been changed for her safety, was one of 276 girls abducted by Boko Haram fighters from their school in the town of Chibok on the night of April 14, 2014, in what was Nigeria’s most high-profile mass abduction case.
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How a group of taxi drivers went in search of their missing friend... and discovered

The Daily Mail 14 Apr 2024
Stumbled across in the depths of the Soka forest in Nigeria was a dilapidated building, overgrown with weeds and crumbling beneath the weight of the deadly secrets it held within ... in Nigeria ... Nigeria.
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Nigeria’s DJ Bella Attempts to Break World Record for Longest Live-streamed Concert

This Day 13 Apr 2024
Nigeria .. Nigeria’s MaskQueen, Anuoluwapo Sanni better known as DJ Bella is set to break world record for Longest Live-Streamed Concert by a DJ ... event and its strategic location in Festac town.
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Ten years after ‘Bring Back Our Girls,’ Nigeria’s kidnappings continue

Al Jazeera 12 Apr 2024
Since the armed group Boko Haram kidnapped nearly 300 students in 2014 at an all-girls school in the town of Chibok, abductions have become a recurrent fixture in Nigeria, especially in the northern regions.
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David Mark: Bestriding Two Worlds at 76

This Day 12 Apr 2024
When Captain David Mark completed his Militating Engineering course in India, he returned to Nigeria ... Following yet another military coup in Nigeria in 1985, General Ibrahim BadamasiBabangida was installed as the country’s military president.
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Niger Gov Flags Off Construction of Roads in Kontagora

This Day 11 Apr 2024
Nigeria . ... In what could be described as Sallah gifts for the people of Kontagora town and its environs, the Niger State Government has commenced the construction of 110 kilometres of roads in the area.
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Ten years on from Chibok, what happened to the 276 Nigerian girls snatched from their school?

AOL 11 Apr 2024
The group’s leaders withdrew back into the forest and the girls were free, driven to Banki, a town on the border between Nigeria and Cameroon, where a military helicopter picked them up.
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