Why mass kidnappings still plague Nigeria a decade after Chibok abductions

[ad_1] Lagos, Nigeria – In the decade since the armed group Boko Haram kidnapped nearly 300 students at an all-girls school in the town of Chibok, abductions have become a recurrent fixture in Nigeria, especially in the restive northern regions....

‘I want to be everything’: Nigeria’s herder community heads to school – a first in generations

[ad_1] In 2016, when the terrorist organisation Boko Haram seized control of Abadam, a local government area in Borno State, North East Nigeria, Aisha’s family fled, leaving behind their livestock, farmland, and more.The Fulani family sought refuge in Maiduguri, the...

Children kidnapped in northern Nigeria have been freed

[ad_1] NewsFeedChildren who were kidnapped in two separate abductions in northern Nigeria have been freed. On Friday the army rescued one group taken from Sokoto, while more than 130 students from Kaduna were released early on Sunday.Published On 24 Mar...

Why can’t Nigeria stop the kidnapping of schoolchildren?

[ad_1] About 300 schoolchildren are missing after the latest mass kidnapping in Nigeria.It is every parent’s nightmare: the kidnapping of their children. It happens all too often in Nigeria. In the second mass abduction within a week, gunmen kidnapped what...