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News on Nigeria: the Life for schoolgirls in the northern Nigeria

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Boko Haram attacks that have killed hundreds, northern Nigeria schoolgirls struggle for education against all odds.</h2>
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 <strong style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Abuja, Nigeria - </strong><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">One month after the armed group Boko Haram kidnapped more than 300 girls from a boarding school in Chibok, the missing schoolgirls have yet to be found.</span><br />
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Five years of <strong>Boko Haram attacks</strong> in northeast Nigeria have severely hampered access to education in the region and, despite promises by the government to secure schools, attacks and killings continue.</div>
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In Nigeria - a country that boasts Africa's largest economy, population and oil reserves - more than 10.5 million children are out of the education system, and only four percent of girls in northern Nigeria complete secondary school.</div>
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The closure of schools across the northeast and the threat of attacks on students is further excluding those who are already marginalised.</div>
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"I vowed never to go to school again, because of the mass murder I witnessed," said Mary, a student at the now closed Askira Uba secondary school in Borno - a state terrorised by Boko Haram and the country's most dangerous region. For her safety, she asked that her real name not be published.</div>
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"My classmates were shot, some slaughtered like animals and set on fire," she said of <strong>the attack</strong> on the night of May 6.</div>
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Boko Haram made 14-year-old Mary an orphan after killing her entire family.</div>
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"They shot my father in front of me, but I was able to escape," she said. "My mother was not so lucky - she was locked in a room and the whole building was set on fire with her inside and two of my younger brothers. They all died."</div>
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Mary now lives with her uncle and goes to school kilometres away from her home, friends and former teachers. The memory of her parents makes her determined to complete her education.</div>
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"When I grow up I want to be a lecturer. I want to impart knowledge onto others in order to develop my state, where a lot of girls do not go to school," she said.</div>
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"My parents always advised me to be serious with my studies, they told me it is only when I become highly educated that I will be able to better my life and live a more fulfilled life than theirs."</div>
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<strong>Tormented by events</strong></div>
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Boko Haram's attacks since early 2014 have been <strong>brutal</strong> and have targeted <strong>the most vulnerable</strong>. Remote <strong>villages</strong>, <strong>markets</strong>, hospitals, schools and children have borne <strong>the brunt of the attacks</strong>. </div>
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In the early hours of February 24, Boko Haram abducted an unknown number of female students in Buni Yadi village, Yobe state, and<strong> killed 43 boys</strong>.</div>
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Also in February, in Konduga, a village 35km from Maiduguri, the so-called birthplace of Boko Haram, gunmen abducted 20 female students from the Government Girls Science College and <strong>killed more than 53 </strong>people. Following that attack, the federal government closed five federal colleges in three states under a state of emergency order.</div>
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Joy, 17, was a student at the college in Konduga. She stays at home now, assisting her mother on the farm during the day instead of going to school.</div>
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"They killed a lot of people and burned down my school. Some of my friends were raped. I escaped," she told Al Jazeera, asking that her real name not be used for safety reasons.</div>
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Joy's daily journey to school used to involve trekking for two-and-a-half kilometres across difficult terrain. "In order to get to school on time, I would have to be on the road by 6:30am," she said. "My village was at the top of the hill, but I didn't care because I wanted to go to school. Education is the root of every aspect of human development."</div>
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Joy wants to continue studying and become a nurse. "I am inspired by the work I saw the doctors and nurses do when my school was attacked," she said. "I hope to assist my parents who are poor, and also my fellow human beings - especially the widows and the orphans in my town, who are victims of Boko Haram attacks."</div>
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<strong>Education against all odds</strong></div>
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According to an <strong>Amnesty International report</strong> released last October, titled Nigeria: Keep away from schools or we'll kill you, the right to education is under attack in Nigeria. Between the beginning of 2012 until October 2013, at least 70 teachers and more than 100 students have been killed or wounded in northern Nigeria and thousands of children forced out of schools.</div>
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In Borno state, more than 800 classrooms have been burned down. In Yobe state, which has been in a state of emergency for nearly a year, <strong>209 schools have been destroyed</strong>.</div>
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Those who can, have moved away to the relative safety of surrounding northern towns to continue their studies and live with extended family. </div>
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Fatima, 14, who gave only one name to protect herself from reprisals, moved in with extended family in Kaduna, a city not far from the capital Abuja, after a Boko Haram attack on her school. She told Al Jazeera she now feels safe.</div>
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"I enjoy my new school because there is peace here, no gunshot sounds, no explosives sounds," she said.</div>
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"There is no threat experienced by me here in my new school. But it is still painful for me and all of the other students and teachers who have been scattered because we were like a family, and now we have been forced to go our separate ways. I will never forget my friends and teachers who were killed. I miss them deeply."</div>
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She is still tormented by the events of her past. "From time to time, I think about what happened at my last school and when I see people that I don't know, especially men, I get scared and think about the terrible experience."</div>
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Despite the fear, Fatima is determined to be educated and become a doctor. Girls such as Mary, Joy and Fatima are part of a generation of young women and girls trying to secure an education against all odds, so that they can better the lives of themselves, their families and their country.</div>
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News on Nigeria: the Life for schoolgirls in the northern Nigeria

Boko Haram attacks that have killed hundreds, northern Nigeria schoolgirls struggle for education against all odds. Abuja, Nigeria...

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Pray 4 Nigeria! Another Bomb Blast rocks Jos at football viewing centre (PHOTOS)

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Less than a week after multiple explosion killed over 200 people in Jos, another bomb blast rocked Jos City .The blast occurred at a football viewing centre,Bauci road,where many gathered to watch the European Champions League final between Atletico vs Real Madrid Match....The University of Jos as well as the staff quarters is situated in Bauchi ,a Muslim dominated area...</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 25.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 25.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 25.200000762939453px;">Pam Ayuba, spokesman for the Plateau state governor Jonah Jang, said the blast happened on Bauchi Road at about 9:30 pm</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 25.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 25.200000762939453px;">According to Reuters, Mohammed Shittu, a local journalist at the scene said as the bomber approached Jos View Centre he failed to get there before his car exploded,killing just him...</span>

Pray 4 Nigeria! Another Bomb Blast rocks Jos at football viewing centre (PHOTOS)

xml api Less than a week after multiple explosion killed over 200 people in Jos, another bomb blast rocked Jos City .The blast occurr...

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Yesterday's Jos blast: University of Jos loses 15 students

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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">University of Jos twitter handle just announced that they lost 15 students at yesterday's twin bomb blasts that left over 200 people dead. 8 of those students were final year med students. Too sad!</span>

Yesterday's Jos blast: University of Jos loses 15 students

University of Jos twitter handle just announced that they lost 15 students at yesterday's twin bomb blasts that left over 200 p...

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Girl forced to watch her father/brother killed by Boko Haram tells her story

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15 year old Deborah Peter, a Chibok indigene who now resides in Virginia, USA, was at the Capitol Hill, D.C yesterday May 21st, where she narrated her experience in the hands of Boko Haram. Deborah was at the US congress in her capacity as a Boko haram survivor, to lend her voice to the #bringbackourgirls campaign, as members of the congress debated on how to effectively win the war against the radical Islamic sect that abducted over 200 girls in Chibok on <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_551422251" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">April 14th</span></span>.<br /><br />Deborah told the story of how her father, a Christian pastor who had been asked to deny his faith and her brother were both killed in a singular attack on the evening of Dec 22 2011 by three members of Boko haram. She said the men shot her dad 3 times on the chest and as they deliberated on whether to kill her brother, her dad breathed his last when he heard gun shots fired at his son, Caleb.<br /><br />Deborah said she was then asked her to lie in between their corpses. She laid there until the next morning when she was rescued by a local Pastor who paid for her to be transported out of the region. Sadly, the pastor who assisted her was also killed in 2013 by the sect men. Continue...<br /><br /><a href="https://draft.blogger.com/null" name="more"></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">
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“I decided to tell the world my story when the Chibok girls were taken because everyone needs to know how horrible Boko Haram is. They kill innocent people who never hurt them. I want the world to understand what happened to me. I hope the kidnapped Chibok girls will take courage from my story, and know more of what God says, and know what it means to stand strong in the face of bad people.” she said</div>
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Deborah was asked to describe how she felt about Boko Haram after all she had been through and she replied "It’s a hard question. I think they’re bad. I can’t judge them. The Bible said do not judge.”</div>
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Girl forced to watch her father/brother killed by Boko Haram tells her story

15 year old Deborah Peter, a Chibok indigene who now resides in Virginia, USA, was at the Capitol Hill, D.C yesterday May 21st, wher...

8:44:00 pm

Chibok girls: Niger state cancels Children' Day and Democracy Day celebrations

Chibok girls: Niger state cancels Children' Day and Democracy Day celebrations

The Niger state government today May 22 cancelled the forthcoming Children's Day and Democracy Day celebrations in the state. Accordi...

8:43:00 pm

Scores killed today as Boko Haram men attack village in Borno state

Scores killed today as Boko Haram men attack village in Borno state

According to reports, Boko Haram gunmen attacked Gumboru Ngala village in Borno State today May 22nd killing over 20 people and razing ma...

8:42:00 pm

Photos of Police averted bomb blast incident in Kano this morning

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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">This af</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">ternoon, the Nigerian Police released a press statement claiming to have averted w<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 14.949999809265137px;">hat could have been another devastating bomb blast in the ancient city of Kano this morning. Read that <a href="http://lindaikeji.blogspot.com/2014/05/police-press-release-police-avert.html" style="color: #b41e20; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">here.</a></span></span></span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 14.949999809265137px;">Well, they've just released photos from the incident. See more pics after the cut...</span></span></span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 14.949999809265137px;"></span></span></span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><a href="https://draft.blogger.com/null" name="more" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"></a><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><br />
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Photos of Police averted bomb blast incident in Kano this morning

This af ternoon, the Nigerian Police released a press statement claiming to have averted w hat could have been another devastating bomb b...

8:26:00 pm

Chibok girls: Gov Shettima replies Asari Dokubo, calls him a jester

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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">Borno State Governor, Kashim Shettima has replied Asari Dokubo who has in recent times alleged that the missing Chibok girls is all a scam and the handiwork of the governor. In a statement by the Governor's spokesperson, Isa Gusau, Shettima described Dokubo as a jester who no serious minded Nigerian should take serious. The statement below...</span><br />
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"Governor Shettima is too serious minded to reply Asari Dokubo who is just a joker as most Nigerians regard him. As a onetime journalist covering the Niger Delta, I had come in direct contact with Asari when he organized a rally in support of late Gaddafi in Port Harcourt and also when he organized the 2011/2012 Isaac Boro lecture in Port Harcourt which he kept interrupting, taking over the microphone from people like respected lawyers like Festus Keyamo, intermittently speaking without protocol and without shame like a child. He is just a joke, no reasonable Nigerian takes him serious. He was reported saying Chibok abduction was a sham, I won’t be surprised if by next week the same Asari Dokubo leads another rally to counter the one he just held. Last year, Asari was reported speaking against Presidency, then he changed tune now we don’t know what happened but that is how he is, he uses the media for personal interest and some sort of blackmail." Continue...<br /><a href="https://draft.blogger.com/null" name="more"></a></blockquote>
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“He wants to be regarded as a hero but I tell you that no one sees him as such in the Niger Delta that I had covered. He is trying to force unwilling public to see him different from who he is but like a say goes, ‘you can fool some people all the time, you can fool all the people sometime but you cannot fool all the people all the time. Asari dubiously took advantage of Isaac Boro event which attracts participants to say what he said so that the procession would seem like a support base for his isolated opinion. I saw some pictures of some girls in one house displaying some placards, from the faces, I think he probably assembled some of his immediate and extended family members and gave them placards. One person wrote on all the cards, the same writing, all of which look like a sort of Mickey Mouse scene in cartoon series. How can Governor Shettima reply a jester, how can he respond to such a play by Asari that falls far below the standard of Nollywood when he is busy working very hard with all relevant bodies finding ways on how to secure the freedom of his and Borno’s precious daughters in captivity?” Gusau said.</blockquote>
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Chibok girls: Gov Shettima replies Asari Dokubo, calls him a jester

Borno State Governor, Kashim Shettima has replied Asari Dokubo who has in recent times alleged that the missing Chibok girls is all a sca...

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See photos of Nigerian troops in action to bring back missing girls

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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">Reuben Abati reveals pictures of 'Nigeria's committed and patriotic troops' ready to engage terrorists of notorious Sambisa forest to #BringBackOurGirls. And there's a photo op of this? lol. Well, I don't blame the government, how else will we believe that they are really doing all they can to bring back our missing girls. Well done, troops! See more photos after the cut...</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><a href="https://draft.blogger.com/null" name="more" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"></a><br />
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See photos of Nigerian troops in action to bring back missing girls

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US General Reveal: Nigerian military Are Afraid to face Boko Haram

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<span style="font-size: medium;">Testifying on Thursday before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the US Air Force Chief of staff, Gen. Mark Welsh III, said, “We’re now looking at a military force that is, quite frankly, becoming afraid to even engage. The United States doesn’t have the capacity, the capability to go rescue every kidnapped person around the world.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">The Pentagon’s Principal Director for African Affairs, Alice Friend, also said, “The Nigerian military has the same challenges with corruption that every other institution in Nigeria does. Much of the funding that goes to the Nigerian military is skimmed off the top, if you will.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">US officials have also said that its involvement had also been made difficult because Nigerian officials ignored past warnings to soften brutal tactics that only fuelled the Boko Haram’s insurgency.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">At Thursday’s Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing, officials condemned the kidnappings and committed American aid to help rescue the girls. But they also expressed frustration at Nigeria’s political and military leaders for failing to heed Washington’s warnings about the extremist group.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">“We have been urging Nigeria to reform its approach to Boko Haram,” Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, Robert Jackson, said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">He added, “From our own difficult experiences in Afghanistan and Iraq, we know that turning the tide of an insurgency requires more than force. The state must demonstrate to its citizens that it can protect them and offer them opportunity. When soldiers destroy towns, kill civilians and detain innocent people with impunity, mistrust takes root.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">A retired Head of the US military’s Africa Command, Gen. Carter Ham, said, “My sense is that US Government will remain in a supporting role to Nigeria. I do not think the U.S.G. will seek unilateral action.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">The size of the Sambisa Forest is also believed to make the search for the girls difficult.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">“We are basically searching for these girls in an area that’s roughly the size of West Virginia, so it’s a tough challenge, to be sure,” state Department spokesman, Marie Harf, said on Thursday.</span></div>
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US General Reveal: Nigerian military Are Afraid to face Boko Haram

US General Reveal saying the Nigerian military is becoming afraid of engaging Boko Haram Punch reports Testifying on Thursd...

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Rocket attack on Soye village in Borno state kills 31, injures many

Rocket attack on Soye village in Borno state kills 31, injures many

Here's a breaking news report from NTA. A rocket attack on Soye Village market in Bama LGA of Borno state has left 31 people dead and ...

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#ChildNotBride: Senator Yerima Joins #BringBackOurGirls Campaign [SEE PHOTO]

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#ChildNotBride: Senator Yerima Joins #BringBackOurGirls Campaign [SEE PHOTO]

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Adamawa villagers today killed 70 Boko Haram men searching for food

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According to a report by Sahara Reporters, no fewer than 70 members of Boko Haram were killed today May 16th by members of a vigilante group in the Madagali town of Adamawa state and captured seven alive who they handed over to the police. </div>
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The vigilantes reportedly acted after they were tipped off by a local food vendor that the militants were coming to get food before heading out for a major operation to raid villages in the area, usually carried out at night.</div>
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With this information, the vigilantes mobilized, laid ambush and patiently waited for the men of the sect. The men, numbering about 100, showed up later at night to pick up their meal and that was when the vigilantes attacked them, killing most and arresting the ones that survived the assault. Continue...</div>
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"They (soldiers) seem to be helpless and to fear the Boko Haram warriors who terrorize us here. But we are not afraid. They are men like us. And we are tired of folding up our hands and allowing them to kill us, to kill our wives and to kill our children."</blockquote>
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Adamawa villagers today killed 70 Boko Haram men searching for food

According to a report by Sahara Reporters, no fewer than 70 members of Boko Haram were killed today May 16th by members of a vigilante gr...

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The Times of London mocks President Jonathan with cartoon

The Times of London mocks President Jonathan with cartoon

When you go to their website , this is the main pic you will see there...drawn by The Times' political cartoonist, Peter Brooke...

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The Times of London mocks President Jonathan with cartoon

The Times of London mocks President Jonathan with cartoon

When you go to their website , this is the main pic you will see there...drawn by The Times' political cartoonist, Peter Brooke...

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Parents identify 54 abducted Chibok girls in Boko Haram video (list of there names)

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54 out of the 130 girls shown in the 27minutes video released by Boko Haram yesterday, May 12th, have been identified by their parents, Premium Times reports<br /><br />In a video viewing session which took place at the office of the Chief of Staff to Governor Kashim Shettima of Borno State, the video was played before some of the parents of the girls abducted, teachers, security officers, female students which included some of the girls who escaped from the abductors. With their help, some of the girls shown in the video were identified by their names. The viewing session took place at about 2pm today.<br /><br />In a press statement issued by Governor Kashim Shettima’s Adviser on media, Isa Gusau, he said the exercise is still ongoing and would involve other parents as well as other students. See the names of the 54 identified missing school girls after the cut...</div>
<br /><a href="https://draft.blogger.com/null" name="more"></a><br />First the press statement...<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">
"Borno State Governor, Kashim Shettima has confirmed that young girls shown in a video released by the Boko Haram sect, are part of schoolgirls abducted at Government Secondary School Chibok following a night attack on April 14,2014”, said Mr. Gusau. Fifty four of the girls of the video have been identified by their names at an exercise that involved some parents of the girls, fellow students that include escapees from abduction, some teachers, security men and some officials of the Borno State Government led by the Chief of Staff to the Government House, Abubakar Kyari. The parents and students were conveyed to the Government House in Maiduguri to make for an open identification exercise. The names are currently being compared with school records as well as names published some days back to ensure accuracy. The exercise continues at the Government House and it is hoped that more names will be established by parents, students and teachers as well as management of the affected school”. It read</blockquote>
<br />The statement listed the girls identified as<br /><br />1. Agnes Gafane<br />2. Saraya Stober<br />3. Hauwa Bitrus<br />4. Hajara Isa<br />5. Na’omi Philimun<br />6. Hauwa Abdu (1st Speaking)<br />7. Magret Yama<br />8. Shitta Abdu<br />9. Jummai Muta<br />10. Ladi Paul<br />11. Roda Peter<br />12. Filo Dauda<br />13. Godiya Bitrus<br />14. Saratu Tauji (2nd Speaking)<br />15. Ross Daniel<br />16. Hauwa Ali<br />17. Hajara Isa (Amira 3rd Speaking)<br />18. Luba Afga<br />19. Na’omi Luka<br />20. Saraya Emos Ali<br />21. Bilkisu Abdullahi<br />22. Mairama Ali<br />23. Maryam Ali Maiyanga<br />24. Dabora Abbas<br />25. Kabu Mala<br />26. Halima Ali<br />27. Yana Bukar<br />28. Solomi Pugu<br />29. Lydia Emmar<br />30. Luba Sanda<br />31. Saraya Samuel<br />32. Comfort Habila<br />33. Rejoice Shanki<br />34. Gloria Yaga<br />35. Mary Nkeki<br />36. Moda Baba<br />37. Hauwa Isuwa<br />38. Patient Jacob<br />39. Ladi Jajel<br />40. Abigel Bukar<br />41. Fanta Lawan<br />42. Zainabu Yaga<br />43. Aisha Lawan Zanna<br />44. Dokas Yakubu<br />45. Kabu Mala<br />46. Maryama Bashir<br />47. Hauwa M. Maina<br />48. Mary G. Dauda<br />49. Susana Yakubu<br />50. Maryam Abbas<br />51. Laraba John<br />52. Hanatu Nuhu<br />53. Na’ omi Bukar<br />54. Rifkatu Galang<br /><div style="clear: both;">
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Parents identify 54 abducted Chibok girls in Boko Haram video (list of there names)

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