Tag: Dapchi
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Dapchi: Pray for Leah Sharibu’s safe return on Good Friday, CAN tells Christians
The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has called on all churches and indeed Christians to use the occasion of the forthcoming Good Friday celebrations to offer prayer to God for the freedom and safe return of Leah Sharibu who is still held Boko Haram captivity. Good Friday will be celebrated tomorrow, March 30. The organisation…
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Dapchi: Don’t make a martyr out of Leah Sharibu, Fasehun warns Buhari
The founder of Oodua People’s Congress, Dr. Frederick Fasehun, has told President Muhammadu Buhari not to make a martyr out of the Christian lone girl, Leah Sharibu in Boko Haram’s captivity. Fasehun also admonished President Buhari to ensure Sharibu reunited with her family to celebrate Easter. Fasehun said it was unfortunate that after negotiations with…
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Save lone Christian girl from Boko Haram’s captivity now, PFN, Afenifere tell Buhari
The pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere and the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria, have appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari to speed up actions in saving the last Dapchi schoolgirl, Leah Sharibu still held in Boko Haram’s captivity. Recall that 104 of the schoolgirls were freed and had since been reunited with their families last week. However, the…
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I Won’t Go Back To Dapchi School – Senior Girl
A year two senior student of the Government Girls Science Technical College, Dapchi, has said she will not return to the school even after Boko Haram returned nearly all 110 students kidnapped from the school. Rakiya Adamu, SS2, who was among the lucky few that escaped on February 19, when dozens of her friends and…
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Dapchi girls: Army denies Sergeant David Bako confession
The Nigerian Army has denied and refute as false supposed confessional statements made by one Sergeant David Bako that the Army is saying has never served “in the Army, deserted or dismissed”. The Army refuted the confessional claims in a statement signed by its Director of Public Relations, Brigadier General Texas Chukwu, stressing supposed reported…
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Our children will acquire western education despite Boko Haram’s threat – Dapchi girls’ parents insists
Some parents of the just released Dapchi school girls have reiterated that their children will continue to acquire western education despite Boko Haram’s threat of not doing so to avoid risking another abduction. The members of the sect who returned the girls to Dapchi on Wednesday were said to have left a strong warning to…
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How we negotiated release of Dapchi schoolgirls from Boko Haram’s captivity – DSS
The Director General of Department of State Services (DSS), Lawal Daura on Friday narrated how the Service negotiated and secured the release of 105 out of the 111 girls abducted from a secondary school in Dapchi, Yobe State on February 19. Daura, who spoke when President Muhammadu Buhari received the released girls at the Aso…
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Dapchi: We won’t abandon Christian girl in Boko Haram’s custody – Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari has assured the parent of the lone girl in Boko Haram’s captivity, Liya Shuaibu and the entire Dapchi community that he won’t abandon (her) Liya because of her bravery not denounce her religion. The president noted that he is as committed to the freedom of Liya as to the girls’ freedom when…
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Dapchi: Dangerous example of how not to help Boko Haram
Azu Ishiekwene It’s like a tale from fish-wifery told by moonlight: how Boko Haram entered a Nigerian town as villains, kidnapped dozens of schoolgirls, and 32 days later returned them to the same town as heroes with flags waving and crowds cheering and not a single Nigerian soldier in sight. Amend the last part. The…
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Ajimobi congratulates parents of Dapchi 104, urges prayers for deceased girls’ parents
Oyo State Governor, Senator Abiola Ajimobi, has congratulated parents of the 104 Dapchi girls released from the captivity of the Boko Haram insurgents, on Wednesday, just as he urged prayers for the parents of the five deceased students. In a statement by his Special Adviser, Communication and Strategy, Mr. Bolaji Tunji, on Thursday, Ajimobi also…