Nigerian leader orders action on kidnapped girls

>Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan on Sunday ordered a stepped-up drive to free 223 schoolgirls whose abduction by suspected Islamists has ignited a global outcry, as two girls who escaped told of their dead-of-night ordeal.

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Habari Zinazoendana

5 years ago

BBC

26 Mar

Kidnapped Nigerian footballers freed

Two Nigerian footballers - one a Super Eagles international - have been released after being kidnapped on Sunday.

 

10 years ago

BBC

Strike action halts Nigerian league

Nigeria's league is suspended indefinitely because of a referees' strike in protest at a leadership crisis in the game.

 

11 years ago

BBC

AUDIO: Call for action on abducted girls

The Nigerian government has been criticised for not doing enough to find and release some 190 schoolgirls abducted by militants two weeks ago.

 

11 years ago

BBC

Eight more Nigerian girls abducted

Suspected Boko Haram militants have kidnapped eight girls in northern Nigeria, following last month's mass abduction, police say.

 

11 years ago

BBC

US joins hunt for Nigerian girls

A team of US experts is sent to Nigeria to help find more than 200 schoolgirls abducted by the Islamist militant group Boko Haram.

 

11 years ago

BBC

Seized Nigerian girls 'taken abroad'

Some of the schoolgirls abducted by suspected militant Islamists in northern Nigeria are believed to have been taken to neighbouring states, a local leader tells the BBC.

 

10 years ago

BBC

Abducted Nigerian girls 'seen alive'

More than 50 of the girls abducted by militant Islamists in Nigeria last year were seen alive three weeks ago, a woman tells the BBC.

 

9 years ago

BBC

02 Oct

Five girls 'bomb Nigerian city'

Five young girls were behind a series of deadly explosions in the north-eastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri on Thursday evening, security sources say.

 

11 years ago

BBC

Abducted Nigerian girls 'recognised'

Relatives and friends of the abducted Nigerian schoolgirls identify some of them from a video released by Boko Haram Islamist militants.

 

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