Nigeria says kidnapped Christian teenager Leah Sharibu is alive
Jos, NigeriaMorning Star News More than a month after an aid worker indicated in a video that kidnapped Christian teenager Leah Sharibu had been killed, a government official in Nigeria on Saturday said she was alive. Citing intelligence from security agencies, presidential spokesman Garba Shehu released a statement reaffirming that the government is negotiating with […]
Calls for release of Nigerian Christian schoolgirl Leah Sharibu renewed ahead of her 16th birthday
Calls for the release of Nigerian Christian schoolgirl Leah Sharibu – among 110 girls abducted from their school in Dapchi in February, 2018 – have been renewed ahead of her 16th birthday on Tuesday. Leah Sharibu. Sharibu was 14-years-old when she was taken from the school on 19th February by militants belonging to Boko Haram […]
As Nigeria votes, family and churches urge candidates to remember Christian teen Leah Sharibu
World Watch Monitor One year since the Christian teenager Leah Sharibu was abducted from her boarding school in north-eastern Nigeria by an Islamist group, a coalition of groups have called on presidential candidates to tell Nigerians how they plan to secure her release. “We are urging the political parties and their candidates that now that the campaigns […]
Parents seek global petitions to Nigerian President to “#BringBackOurLeah”
World Watch Monitor The parents of the Nigerian girl, Leah Sharibu, held by Boko Haram, say they have renewed hope that she might safely return home after a short audio recording her kidnappers released last week. In the 35 seconds-long recording, the Christian teenager asks for help for her family and herself, calling on Nigeria’s president […]
Kidnapped schoolgirl Leah Sharibu appeals for rescue in audio recording, say reports
Morning Star News In an audio recording revealed this week, kidnapped Christian schoolgirl Leah Sharibu appeals to the government of Nigeria to win her release from Islamic extremist group Boko Haram, according to several published sources. Boko Haram released more than 100 schoolgirls about four weeks after kidnapping them on 19th February but held Leah, […]
Buhari does not stop Fulani because they are his “kith and kin” – Christian Association of Nigeria
World Watch Monitor Nigeria under President Muhammadu Buhari’s leadership is more divided than at any time in the country’s history, the Christian Association of Nigeria’s Adamawa State chapter has declared in a letter sent to him on 1st August. Condemning the “mindless massacre” of the predominantly Christian farming communities by Fulani herdsmen, CAN claims that no […]
Nigerian president assures UK archbishop of efforts to secure release of Christian girl
World Watch Monitor Following a meeting with the Archbishop of Canterbury, the President of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari, has said his government is working “quietly” to secure the release of a teenage Christian girl kidnapped by Boko Haram. Archbishop Justin Welby, as well as Secretary General of the Anglican Communion, Nigerian Archbishop Dr Josiah Idowu-Fearon, met Mr Buhari at […]
Nigerian Christian schoolgirl ‘escaped’, only to be sent back to Boko Haram
World Watch Monitor The only Christian among the 110 Nigerian schoolgirls abducted last month by Boko Haram ran away from her kidnappers but was caught and brought back three days later, according to fellow captives, reports the UK’s Guardian newspaper. Leah Sherubu, 15, and two other girls walked for three days and, hungry and exhausted, asked for help from […]
Chibok parents celebrate release of Nigerian schoolgirls as hope for own daughters
Thomson Reuters Foundation Yana Galang was visiting Dapchi in northeast Nigeria to offer condolences to parents whose daughters were kidnapped by Boko Haram when people started to shout with excitement. Her own daughter, Rifkatu, is still missing nearly four years after she and over 200 of her classmates were kidnapped by Boko Haram militants from […]
‘Be patient’ Chibok parents tell families of Nigeria’s latest kidnap victims
Thomson Reuters Foundation Yakubu Nkeki knows just what to say when he meets the parents of 110 Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped by suspected Boko Haram militants in the northeastern town of Dapchi last month. His daughter was among some 220 Chibok girls abducted by the insurgents in 2014, which shot Nigeria’s nine-year-old conflict with Boko Haram […]