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Nigerian governor says 279 kidnapped schoolgirls are freed
GUSAU, Nigeria (AP) — Hundreds of Nigerian girls abducted last week from a boarding school in the country’s northwest have been released, a state governor said Tuesday, as the West African nation faces a spate of school kidnappings. The girls, ages 10 and up, dressed in light blue hijabs and barefoot, packed into Zamfara state’s …
Nigerian Boys Taken in Kidnapping Claimed by Boko Haram Handed Back
Supporters urged authorities to rescue hundreds of abducted schoolboys in the northwestern state of Katsina, Nigeria, on Dec. 17. Photo: kola sulaimon/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images Updated Dec. 17, 2020 4:32 pm ET More than 300 schoolboys kidnapped by gunmen from their boarding school in northwest Nigeria last Friday were handed over to government security agencies late …
Two Nigerian students of Roorkee Institute of Technology thrashed by security guards
Two Nigerian students of Roorkee Institute of Technology thrashed by security guards Home Videos Jul 17, 2020, 04:05 PM IST Two Nigerian students of Roorkee Institute of Technology (RIT) in Uttarakhand were thrashed allegedly by the security guards of the private college. Eight people have been arrested in the case, police said. The incident happened …
African Development Bank excites Nigerian Youths with new irrigation technologies for dry season farming – Nigeria
Ayuba Abimiku, a young rice farmer at Gidan Mai-Akuya community in Nasarawa state, North-central Nigeria, is excited. Ayuba is witnessing the operation of a pressured plastic-piped sprinkler for the first time! “This system allows for proper water management and the farmer can determine the right amount of water needed in the field per time,” he …
Nigerian men targeted elderly women in romance scams worldwide, feds say
Within weeks, their relationship grew into an internet romance with the man sending daily emails in English that she translated via Google. The man who called himself Terry Garcia asked for money — lots of it — from the woman identified as FK in federal court documents. Over 10 months, she sent him a total …
