Tag: chibok

May 4, 2014

Mark Amaza: 9 questions we should be asking about Chibok (#YIssueOfTheWeek)

by Mark Amaza In the almost four years of the insurgency waged by the Boko Haram terrorist group, there has rarely been a crime committed by them as heinous as…

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May 4, 2014

Simon Kolawole: How did Boko Haram become so powerful?

by Simon Kolawole How did Boko Haram become so powerful that the state is becoming powerless?  You hear the proverb all the time, don't you? "He that sows the wind…

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Abayomi Omotayo May 2, 2014

YNaija Editorial: Mr. President, we’re going to need you to resign

  The fact that Nigerians (not even those who like him or feel sorry for him) cannot trust this president, and do not believe that he has the capacity to…

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May 2, 2014

Opinion: The truth about the 234 kidnapped Chibok schoolgirls

by Niran Adedokun That aside, it is shocking that the First Lady, Mrs. Patience Jonathan, has not found her voice in all of this. This is the time for her…

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May 2, 2014

Opinion: Pres. Jonathan, there is still no trace of our abducted girls

by Kingsley Ahanonu Mr. President, no doubt, needs our prayers and support; and yes, we’ve being praying. He shouldn’t make the supplications of millions of Nigerians appear inefficient; he should manifestly work…

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May 1, 2014

Opinion: Why the government is not responding to missing Chibok girls

by Afolabi Opanubi Military interventions to save abducted Boko Haram victims have proved fatal, with victims being killed in the rescue process. This is probably a consideration of the government.…

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May 1, 2014

#BringBackOurGirls: Chris Brown calls on Nigerian govt. to rescue abducted schoolgirls (TWEETS)

by Akan Ido Jailed American music superstar, Chris Brown has joined thousands of others all over the world to demand for action from the Nigerian government to facilitate the release…

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April 30, 2014

Hannatu Musawa: The failure of a people

by Hannatu Musawa There is not one of us out there; not one, that is not someone’s parent or someone’s child. So, whether we like it or not, this tragedy…

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April 30, 2014

Opinion: These kidnapped schoolgirls must not die

by Zainab Suleiman Okino And it is absurd to know that Abuja is sitting pretty while Chibok is mourning. This is a false sense of security. More than two weeks…

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April 30, 2014

Garba Shehu: A government’s cluelessness, information blackout and our missing girls

by Garba Shehu From every indication, the search for these Nigerian schoolgirls will probably be the most difficult search in human history, not the Malaysian Flight MH370 as cited by…

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April 28, 2014

Elnathan John: A story of April and HIV test results

by Elnathan John You think of the families of the more than 70 persons bombed out of existence. And of the families of over 200 girls who were kidnapped by…

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April 28, 2014

Jude Egbas: It’s time to bring down Sambisa forest #BringBackOurGirls

by Jude Egbas The military is aware that the insurgents are indeed in this particular space; with the girls tending to their every physical need including back massages. So why…

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April 28, 2014

Soyombo Ayomikun: Please bring back our girls (Poetry)

by Soyombo Ayomikun From the jaws of hideous monsters.  From the very gates of hell.  Before their voices get silenced forever.  Please bring back our girls 1.From the jaws of hideous monsters   …

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April 28, 2014

Tunde Leye: We have failed in humanizing our tragedy victims (Y! FrontPage)

by Tunde Leye There were military men guarding Chibok school who were outgunned and murdered by the Boko Haram fighters. Who is telling their story, making them into heroes for…

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April 27, 2014

Sonala Olumhense: How Nigeria defines citizenship

by Sonala Olumhense Predictably, when Mr.  Jonathan’s meeting was over last Thursday, the government vowed to find the girls, as if it took an unwieldy meeting of dignitaries in Abuja…

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