Kidnapped girls in Nigeria

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Nigerian pop singer offers her virginity to Boko Haram for return of girls
QMI Agency
First posted: Thursday, June 26, 2014 01:51 PM EDT | Updated: Thursday, June 26, 2014 02:33 PM EDT
A Nigerian pop singer says she will give up her virginity to Boko Haram if they will release a group of kidnapped girls.
"Even if 10 to 12 men have to take me every night, I don't care," singer Adokiye told the newspaper Vanguard. "It is just unfair. They are too young. I wish I could offer myself in exchange."
Critics took to Twitter to tell the singer and peace ambassador her comments did not help the situation.
One with the handle @Ternique_MO accused the singer of using the kidnappings as a way to promote herself.
"Do you think the Boko Haram gives a f--- about your virginity? Stop seeking attention this is not about your p---- b----."
The 23-year-old singer defended her comments on Twitter.
"Voiceless kids are out there getting into different troubles we don't even know about and all we do daily is hold white paper (with the hashtag) #BringBackOurGirls," she tweeted. "I want them back to their parents please."
Nigerian singer Adokiye, 23, has offered her virginity to members of Boko Haram if they will release kidnapped school girls. (Handout/QMI Agency)

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[Walter]

A$$holes.
Nigeria Boko Haram Kidnappings: 60 More Girls Abducted Despite Official Truce

 

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214 of the 234 girls rescued in Nigeria from Boko Haram are pregnant








THE latest rescue of additional 234 women and children by the Nigerian Army from the Sambisa Forest in Borno State, indicated, yesterday, that a sizeable number of the rescued girls were visibly pregnant, even as unofficial reports put the latest number of pregnant girls in one of the camps in Borno as at last Saturday at 214.


Giving this indication in Lagos, Executive Director, UNFPA, Prof. Babatunde Osotimehin, also disclosed that in the last one year, the organization had taken deliveries of over 16,000 pregnancies in the troubled North East part of the country.


Osotimehin, while giving update of the response to the rehabilitation of the rescued women and children, said the organization, in anticipation of the magnitude of the problem on hand, had put in place a formidable team in collaboration with the Federal and state governments, to first restore the dignity of the girls, who, he said, are facing severe psychosocial trauma.


- See more at: Boko Haram:214 rescued girls pregnant - UNFPA - Vanguard News

 

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214 of the 234 girls rescued in Nigeria from Boko Haram are pregnant

boko harape.

 

[Sal]

214 of the 234 girls rescued in Nigeria from Boko Haram are pregnant

yes, there's a surprise...they are pregnant and shell shocked...PTSD coming on strong.

 

[JLM]

Well, it's a good thing they've been rescued albeit a little late. I hadn't heard that news.

 

[55Mercury]

don't think the depraved muslim pedophiles won't in future be collecting their offspring to swell their ranks..

...or something.

 

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Gunmen kidnap more than 300 girls from school in Nigeria
Author of the article:Reuters
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Hamza Ibrahim
Publishing date:Feb 26, 2021 • 1 hour ago • 3 minute read • comment bubbleJoin the conversation
A man stands in the deserted school dormitory after bandits invaded and took away over 300 schoolgirls in Jangede, Nigeria, on February 26, 2021.
A man stands in the deserted school dormitory after bandits invaded and took away over 300 schoolgirls in Jangede, Nigeria, on February 26, 2021. PHOTO BY HABIBU ILIYASU /AFP via Getty Images
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KANO — Unidentified gunmen seized more than 300 girls in a nighttime raid on a school in northwest Nigeria on Friday and are believed to be holding some of them in a forest, police said.

It was the second such kidnapping in little over a week in a region increasingly targeted by militants and criminal gangs. There was no immediate claim of responsibility.


Police in Zamfara state said they had begun search-and-rescue operations with the army to find the “armed bandits” who took the 317 girls from the Government Girls Science Secondary School in the town of Jangebe.

“There’s information that they were moved to a neighboring forest, and we are tracing and exercising caution and care,” Zamfara police commissioner Abutu Yaro told a news conference.

He did not say whether those possibly moved to the forest included all of them.

Zamfara’s information commissioner, Sulaiman Tanau Anka, told Reuters the assailants stormed in firing sporadically during the 1 a.m. raid.

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“Information available to me said they came with vehicles and moved the students, they also moved some on foot,” he said.

School kidnappings were first carried out by jihadist groups Boko Haram and Islamic State West Africa Province but the tactic has now been adopted by other militants in the northwest whose agenda is unclear.

They have become endemic around the increasingly lawless north, to the anguish of families and frustration of Nigeria’s government and armed forces. Friday’s was the third such incident since December.

The rise in abductions is fueled in part by sizeable government payoffs in exchange for child hostages, catalyzing a broader breakdown of security in the north, officials have said, speaking on condition of anonymity.

The government denies making such payouts.

Jangebe town seethed with anger over the abduction, said a government official who was part of the delegation to the community.

Young men hurled rocks at journalists driving through the town, injuring a cameraman, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.

“The situation at Jangebe community is tense as people mobilized to block security operatives, journalists and government officials from getting access to the main town,” he said.

Parents also had no faith in authorities to return their kidnapped girls, said Mohammed Usman Jangebe, the father of one abductee, by phone.

“We are going to rescue our children, since the government isn’t ready to give them protection,” he said.

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“All of us that have had our children abducted have agreed to follow them into to the forest. We will not listen to anyone now until we rescue our children,” Jangebe said, before ending the call.

President Muhammadu Buhari replaced his long-standing military chiefs earlier this month amid the worsening violence.

Last week, unidentified gunmen kidnapped 42 people including 27 students, and killed one pupil, in an overnight attack on a boarding school in the north-central state of Niger.

The hostages are yet to be released.

In December, dozens of gunmen abducted 344 schoolboys from the town of Kankara in northwest Katsina state. They were freed after six days but the government denied a ransom had been paid.

Islamic State’s West Africa branch in 2018 kidnapped more than 100 schoolgirls from the town of Dapchi in northeast Nigeria, all but one of whom – the only Christian – were released.

A ransom was paid, according to the United Nations.

Perhaps the most notorious kidnapping in recent years was when Boko Haram militants abducted 276 schoolgirls from the town of Chibok in Borno state in April 2014. The incident drew widespread global attention.

Many have been found or rescued by the army, or freed in negotiations between the government and Boko Haram, also for a hefty ransom, according to sources.

But 100 are still missing, either remaining with Boko Haram or dead, security officials say.

Gunmen kidnap more than 300 girls from school in Nigeria

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Beaten and cowering, kidnapped Nigerian students beg for help
Author of the article:Reuters
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Garba Muhammad
Publishing date:Mar 13, 2021 • 4 hours ago • 2 minute read • comment bubbleJoin the conversation
A man rests on a pole beside the signage of the Federal College of Forestry Mechanization where gunmen abducted students, in Kaduna, Nigeria March 12, 2021.
A man rests on a pole beside the signage of the Federal College of Forestry Mechanization where gunmen abducted students, in Kaduna, Nigeria March 12, 2021. PHOTO BY STRINGER /REUTERS
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KADUNA — A video of some of the students kidnapped from a college in northwest Nigeria emerged on Saturday, showing them cowering on a forest floor as armed captors hit them with sticks.

Thirty nine students are missing after gunmen stormed the Federal College of Forestry Mechanization in Kaduna state overnight on Thursday, the fourth school abduction in northern Nigeria since December.


Video footage shared on social media showed roughly two dozen students begging for help in English and Hausa. One says the captors want a 500 million naira ($1.31 million) ransom.

“If anybody comes to rescue them without the money they are going to kill us,” a male student says in the video as a man with a gun stands behind him.

College Provost Bello Mohammed Usman and the mother of one kidnapped student on Saturday identified those shown in the video as some of the abducted students, including one pregnant woman. Usman declined to comment on the ransom request.

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Abubakar Sadiq, executive secretary of the Kaduna State Emergency Management Agency, said he was unaware of the video and that he had no authority to comment on the ransom demand.


Earlier on Saturday, Kaduna state security commissioner Samuel Aruwan said nine more students were missing than previously thought – 23 females and 16 males.

“The Kaduna state government is maintaining close communication with the management of the college as efforts are sustained by security agencies towards the tracking of the missing students,” Aruwan said.

The armed gang broke into the school, located on the outskirts of Kaduna city near a military academy, at around 11:30 p.m. (2230 GMT) on Thursday. Aruwan said a further 180 students and staff members who were staying at the school were rescued early on Friday.

Attacks by gangs of armed men, known as bandits, have intensified for several years, and military and police attempts to tackle the gangs have had little success. Many worry that state authorities worsen the situation by letting kidnappers go unpunished, paying them off or providing incentives.

In a statement on Saturday, President Muhammadu Buhari urged that the missing students be found and returned safely to their families.

Gloria Paul said she recognized her 20-year-old daughter, Joy Kurmi Paul, in the video, wearing a pink headscarf. Outside the school on Saturday, the mother begged for help.

“Please, government should help us get them released without hurting them,” she said as tears rolled down her cheeks.

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Gunmen kidnap primary school pupils in Nigeria's Kaduna state
Author of the article:Reuters
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Garba Muhammad and Tife Owolabi
Publishing date:Mar 15, 2021 • 7 hours ago • 2 minute read • comment bubbleJoin the conversation
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari speaks after security forces rescued schoolboys from kidnappers, in Katsina, Nigeria, December 18, 2020.
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari speaks after security forces rescued schoolboys from kidnappers, in Katsina, Nigeria, December 18, 2020. PHOTO BY AFOLABI SOTUNDE /REUTERS
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KADUNA — Gunmen kidnapped primary school pupils and teachers in the northwestern Nigerian state of Kaduna, a state official said on Monday, in the fifth school abduction since December in a country where violence is on the rise.

Kaduna state’s security commissioner, Samuel Aruwan, said on Monday, that the state government has received reports of kidnapping of pupils and teachers in Birnin Gwari local government area.


“The Kaduna State Government is currently obtaining details on the actual number of pupils and teachers reported to have been kidnapped and will issue a comprehensive statement as soon as possible,” Aruwan said in a statement.

The trend of abduction from boarding schools was started by the jihadist group Boko Haram, which seized 270 girls from a school in Chibok in the northeast of the country in 2014. Around 100 of them have never been found. Armed criminal gangs seeking ransoms have since carried out copycat attacks.

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The city is the capital of Kaduna state, part of a region where banditry has festered for years. Nigeria’s federal government has said it would “take out” abductors after criticizing local deals to free victims.

Referring to the latest attack, Sarkin Mota, a resident, told Reuters his son was among those kidnapped as well as three of his teachers.


“(They) were kidnapped early this morning when the teachers and pupils were coming to school,” Mota said. “We are in state of panic,” he said, referring to other parents when they received the news.

Armed men attempted to kidnap more students in Kaduna state overnight on Sunday, as 39 others from an earlier attack in the state remain missing.

Attempts by the military and police to tackle the gangs have had little success, while many worry that state authorities are making the situation worse by letting kidnappers go unpunished, paying them off or providing incentives.

The unrest has become a political problem for Buhari, a retired general and former military ruler who has faced mounting criticism over the rise in violent crime, and replaced his long-standing military chiefs earlier this year.

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