Tag: Dapchi girls
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Chibok/Dapchi girls comparison: Jonathan calls Lai Mohammed ‘notorious liar’
Former President, Goodluck Jonathan, has rubbished a statement credited to the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed that his administration delayed in responding to the abduction of Chibok girls. Mohammed, while speaking at the foundation laying ceremony of the Editors’ plaza championed by the Nigerian Guild of Editors, said, “Now, don’t compare orange with…
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Dapchi vs Chibok girls’ abduction: ‘Stop comparing apple with orange,’ FG tells PDP
The Federal Government on Thursday said comparing its response to the recently abducted Dapchi school girls to that of Chibok girls abducted in 2014 by the Boko Haram insurgents under the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) administration was like ‘comparing apple with orange’. The Information and Culture Minister Alhaji Lai Mohammed said this at the Foundation…
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Dapchi Girls’ abduction: CAS temporally relocates to Maiduguri
The Nigeria Air Force (NAF) on Wednesday said Chief of the Air Staff (CAS) Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar, has temporally relocated to NAF Base, Maiduguri. The NAF Director of Public Relations and Information, AVM Olatokunbo Adesanya, disclosed this in a statement issued on Wednesday in Abuja. He stated that the relocation was to enable Abubakar…
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Army engages fishermen, farmers to search for missing Dapchi schoolgirls
The military has employed the services of local fishermen and farmers in the search for the abducted Dapchi schoolgirls, the head of counter-insurgency operation in the North East (Operation Lafiya Dole), Maj. Gen. Rogers Nicholas, has said. Speaking at the inauguration of helipad, office complex and residential quarters for officers and airmen at the newly…
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Army,police in blame game over 110 abducted Dapchi girls
The army and the police yesterday disagreed over who should carry the can for the February 19 abduction of 110 Dapchi schoolgirls. The Army said it “formally” handed over security in Dapchi to the police as its men moved to another operation, but the police said there was no such handover. The army dismissed as…
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Dapchi girls: I will ensure every abducted persons are safely released – Buhari
President Muhamamdu Buhari on Monday promised that his administration would ensure the safe return of all those abducted by the Boko Haram sect, including the 110 students of the Government Science and Technical College in Dapchi, Yobe State. Buhari made the promise at the Presidential Villa, Abuja while receiving three University of Maiduguri lecturers, one…
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Dapchi Girls: Hold Buhari, Security Chiefs responsible for abduction – PDP tells Nigerians
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has told Nigerians to hold the President Muhammadu Buhari led federal government responsible for the abduction of some schoolgirls in Dapchi, Yobe State on Monday by the Boko Haram sect. The party accused the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) of complacency and insincerity in handling the abduction. Recall that President…
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CSO hails quick rescue of abducted Dapchi schoolgirls
A group of Civil Society groups under the auspices of Coalition of Civil Society Organizations for Transparency and good Governance, has commended the quick intervention of the Nigerian military in the abduction of over 94 schoolgirl from their school in Dapchi, Yobe state which led to their immediate rescue. The group said as compared to…