Tag: Boko Haram

Photographer tells stories of ‘Boko Haram girls’

February 7, 2017 Nigeria Boko Haram, Nigeria, Women, Yola

A photographer given access to some of the most vulnerable victims of Boko Haram has produced a set of striking images to help tell their story. Chris de Bode, who specialises in covering humanitarian stories, visited Yola in north-eastern Nigeria for the Dutch Relief Alliance, a coalition of 14 Dutch . . . Read More

Nigerians displaced by Boko Haram fear going home

January 25, 2017 Nigeria Boko Haram, Borno, Chibok girls, Maiduguri, Nigeria

Aid workers in Borno State say thousands of Nigerians still live in fear of Boko Haram and have no intention of returning home, reports The Guardian. Nigeria’s government claims the insurgents are defeated, but the continued threat posed by Boko Haram was underlined on 16 January when twin suicide bombings . . . Read More

‘90,000 Christian martyrs annually’ claim disputed

January 20, 2017 Global News -- No Particular Country Boko Haram, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Iraq, Islamic State, Nigeria, Syria

Global charity Open Doors has disputed the way in which statistics on Christian “martyrs” are collected, arguing that an annual figure of 90,000, recently reported widely, is significantly higher than the accurately verifiable number. The figure, reported by some media and cited by an Italian academic on Vatican Radio, was . . . Read More

Chibok girl freed 7mths ago not yet allowed home

January 10, 2017 Nigeria Abuja, Boko Haram, Chibok girls, Nigeria

Sunday (8 Jan.) marked 1,000 days since 276 schoolgirls were abducted from the government boarding school in Nigeria’s northern town of Chibok. So far, 195 remain in captivity. However, the few who’ve regained freedom, like Amina Ali Nkeki, have found themselves not completely free. Amina was the first to escape, . . . Read More

Church body calls for equal education in N Nigeria

January 10, 2017 Nigeria Boko Haram, Christian Association of Nigeria, Education, Nigeria, Quran, Sharia, Yobe

The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) in the north-eastern state of Yobe has appealed to the state government to introduce Christian religious studies in public schools. Despite the constitutional provision for freedom of worship, the teaching of Christian religious knowledge is prohibited by local authorities in Yobe and other northern . . . Read More

1,000 days: 24th Chibok girl to be freed leaves 195 of 276 still missing

January 6, 2017 Nigeria Boko Haram, Borno, Chibok girls, EYN

Almost 1,000 days since she was kidnapped with 275 other schoolgirls from school dormitories in Chibok, northeast Nigeria, the 24th girl to be released from captivity has been found. Rakiya Abubakar Gali was discovered on 5 Jan. by the Army, who were questioning captured Boko Haram militants. She has a . . . Read More

UPDATE: Army recovers 24th Chibok kidnap victim

January 5, 2017 Nigeria Boko Haram, Borno, Chibok girls, Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria, Trauma

The released 21 Chibok girls met President Buhari – seen here with Vice President Osinbajo – at his villa in Nigeria’s capital, Abuja, 19 Oct.The Office of the President Update 5 Jan. 2017: The Nigerian Army says it has discovered another woman who kidnapped nearly three years ago from . . . Read More

Nigerian Human Rights Commission calls on President to stop ‘callous’ Kaduna killings

January 5, 2017 Nigeria Boko Haram, Fulani herdsmen, Kaduna, Kafanchan, Muhammadu Buhari

The Nigerian National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to put an end to the ongoing deadly attacks committed by suspected Fulani herdsmen in southern Kaduna.

Nigerian churches criticised for not helping persecuted north

December 21, 2016 Nigeria Agatu, Boko Haram, ECWA, Fulani herdsmen, Nigeria

Baroness Cox: there’s ‘a disconnect at every level’ between southern and northern Nigerian churchesBaptist Assembly 2009 Christians in the south of Nigeria are failing to help their persecuted compatriots in the north, according to a veteran humanitarian campaigner. British peer, Baroness Caroline Cox, who has made numerous aid missions . . . Read More

UPDATE: Five months after killing of female Nigerian preacher, suspects yet to be named

December 20, 2016 Nigeria Abuja, Agatu, Bauchi, Boko Haram, Church of Christ in Nigeria, ECWA, Eunice Elisha, Fulani herdsmen, Gombe, Joseph Kurah, Nasarawa, Pentecostals

Mother of seven, Eunice Elisha, was murdered close to Nigeria’s capital, AbujaWorld Watch Monitor Five months after the brutal murder of a 42-year-old female preacher in Kubwa, a suburb of Nigeria’s capital, Abuja, the police are yet to name the perpetrators. Eunice Elisha, an indigene of Nigeria’s southern State . . . Read More

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