Chibok girls
7 years on, more than 100 Chibok girls still missing
Several more mass kidnappings of schoolchildren have occurred in northern Nigeria since Chibok, resulting in hundreds of schools being shut in a region where...
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5 years after Boko Haram kidnap, 112 Chibok girls still missing
On April 14, 2014, gunmen stormed the Chibok girls' boarding school, kidnapping 276 pupils aged 12-17, 57 of whom managed to escape by jumping from the trucks.
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Nigerian Chibok girls' champion Ezekwisili quits presidential race
Former government minister Obiageli Ezekwesili said on Twitter that she had been in talks for three months with other candidates about a coalition.
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Nigerian police say 8 Boko Haram suspects confess to Chibok abduction
The mass abduction of girls from their school caused global outrage and drew attention to the militant group which has killed more than 30,000 people since 2009.
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Calls for Nigeria to establish how many missing Chibok girls still alive
Islamist fighters from Nigeria’s Boko Haram group have abducted more than 1,000 children in the northeast since 2013, Unicef said.
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Rift among abductors of Chibok girls delays release talks - Nigerian president
Buhari made the comments on the eve of the fourth anniversary of the abduction in which Islamist insurgents snatched 276 girls from their school, triggering a global outcry.
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Nigeria's Boko Haram has abducted more than 1,000 children since 2013: UN
The agency said it had documented more than 1,000 verified cases, the first time it had published an estimated tally. But the actual number could be much larger, it added.
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'Warned of Boko Haram, Nigerian security lapses helped schoolgirls' abduction'
The kidnapping on 19 February of the girls from Dapchi, aged between 11-19, had echoes of the Islamist insurgency’s abduction in 2014 of 276 students from the town of Chibok.
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Nigeria plans to negotiate for release of 110 abducted Dapchi girls
The kidnapping is one of the largest since the jihadist group Boko Haram abducted more than 270 schoolgirls from the northeastern town of Chibok in 2014.
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Nigeria releases 475 Boko Haram suspects for rehabilitation
The first person convicted for the kidnapping in 2014 of Chibok schoolgirls, sentenced to 15 years’ imprisonment last week.
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'We're never coming back,' say kidnapped Chibok girls in video
Militant Islamist group Boko Haram released a video on Monday purportedly showing some of the remaining girls who were kidnapped from the northeast Nigerian town of Chibok in 2014.
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Chibok mediator wins UN prize for educating victims of Nigeria's Boko Haram
His first venture, Future Prowess, opened a decade ago and was the only school in Borno state in northeast Nigeria.
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[WATCH] Chibok girls: Getting the education they were denied
After three brutal years of captivity by Boko Haram, the newly released 82 Chibok girls are back in school trying to get their lives back to normal.
