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Feb

158 FREED BOKO HARAM ABDUCTED WOMEN AND CHILDREN REUNITED WITH THEIR FAMILIES

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One hundred and fifty-eight women and children abducted by the dreaded Boko Haram sect who were freed last month have been reunited with their families in Yobe State. The women and children were abducted in Katarko town, Gujba Local Government Area in Yobe, a distance of 22 kilometres south of Damaturu, the state capital, sometime last year. However, …

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Feb

Police blame me for my daughter’s rape, protect rapist – Mother of eight-year-old girl raped by security man

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Thirty-six-year-old Sola Adebisi was sobbing because of the sexual attack on her eight-year-old daughter, Lola (not real name), who was defiled by a security guard but because she and her daughter are now being victimised by the police for reporting the case. “One of the policemen even said to my face ‘Like daughter like mother.’ Are they implying …

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Feb

2 Arrested Over Attempted Murder Of 2-year-old Girl

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Two ladies, identified as Sade and Elizabeth have been arrested by men of the Ogun State Police Command at Ago – Owu village in Itori town for act of cruelty to a two-year-old child. The ladies were said to have gagged the baby girl before abandoning her in an unoccupied room adjoining a 12 room bungalow apartment after they had also tied her …

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Feb

NYSC, Mercy Corps Partner on Adolescent Girls’ Education

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A global humanitarian agency, Mercy Corps, has gone into partnership with the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) to implement a project tagged: ‘Educating Nigerian Girls in New Enterprises (ENGINE)’. Mercy Corps is the lead implementing partner for ENGINE, which is a multi donor-funded programme supported by DFID, Coca Cola Export Company and the …

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Feb

WOMAN GAVE BIRTH AT THE CAMPAIGN RALLY OF MUMA GEE

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It was a thing of joy, a sign of blessing and endorsement from God when a woman gave birth during the campaign rally of Muma Gee last Friday. Immediately the Mother of the newly born baby named the child Muma Gee, as a sign of remembrance of the encounter with the great woman.And to crown it all, the baby was given instant scholarship from Muma Gee, …

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Feb

Pastor, others arrested for child trafficking

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The victims The Nigerian Immigration Service, Oyo State Command, on Saturday paraded a pastor, Olufemi Timothy, and four others accused of child trafficking in Ibadan. The command also paraded 12 boys and four girls allegedly being used by the accused persons in a slavery ring. The Controller of the command, Innocent Akatu, said the accused persons …

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Feb

13 Chibok Parents Have Died From Stress-related Illnesses

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Reports from Chibok show that 306 days after the Chibok girls were abducted from their secondary school by armed Boko Haram insurgents, 13 of the parents of those girls have since died due to stress-related illnesses. An online report by the Associated Press (AP), while saying that hundreds of other girls and boys have been abducted in different villages …

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Feb

Children have the right to be children, not soldiers

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BY PERNILLE IRONSIDE On 10 February 2015, children surrender their weapons during a ceremony formalizing their release from the SSDA Cobra Faction armed group, in Pibor, South Sudan. This month marks ten years since my first negotiation to release ‘child soldiers’ from armed forces. I still remember the look of fear mixed with excitement …

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Feb

No Child Abuse, Trafficking in North-East IDP Camps, Says NEMA

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By Daji Sani in Yola. The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) coordinator in North-East, Alhaji Sa’ad Bello, has refuted a media reports that some camps of the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) are engaged in child abuse and trafficking, Bello told journalists in Yola, the capital of Adamawa State, on Friday that there has not been any …

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Feb

BREAKING: CHIBOK GIRLS ARE STILL ALIVE

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A CNN video report says that the Chibok girls, abducted by the Boko Haram sect in April 14, 2014, are still alive. This story was recounted by Monica Sunday, a 20-year old Christian woman who said that she was held by the sect for 3 days last November. She said, while speaking with Channel 4 that the girls were not harmed, but were cooking for the insurgent. …

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