Suspected Boko Haram fighters have abducted 80 people, including children, in a deadly assault on villages in northern Cameroon, officials say. Government spokesman Issa Tchiroma Bakary confirmed that three people had been killed in the attack, which had targeted the village of Mabass and several others along the Nigerian border. He said soldiers had …

By Ebele Orakpo The dream of pretty fifteen-year-old Abigail John, a senior secondary two student of Government Day Secondary School, Jang, Michika Local Government Area of Adamawa State, was temporarily dashed on October 29, 2014 at 11.00am when the dreaded Boko Haram terrorists attacked Mubi and caught her in her house alongside others. It will be …

VISITING Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, Leila Zerrougui, has called for urgent steps to protect children from Boko Haram and what she described as ‘relentless violence’. Zerrougui, who is in Nigeria on a week-long fact-finding mission, lamented how children growing up in Nigeria’s …