Trained to Kill: How Four Boy Soldiers Survived Boko Haram The four children, from a fishing village in Nigeria, were among thousands abducted by Boko Haram and trained as soldiers. They learned to survive, but only by forgetting who they were. By SARAH A. TOPOL Photographs by GLENNA GORDON JUNE 21, 2017 Zanna, kidnapped at …
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The appeal was filed by attorneys Rotimi Jacobs and Pius Akutah at the Court of Appeal in Abuja. The Federal Republic of Nigeria has filed its appeal against the decision of the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) to acquit Senate President Bukola Saraki of false asset declaration charges. The appeal was filed by attorneys Rotimi …
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Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State has announced the appointment of Professor Julius Ihonvbere as Chairman, Strategic Planning Team, Governor’s Office, a statement endorsed by the Secretary to the State Government, Osarodion Ogie said.In addition the governor named Chief Osaro Idah as Special Adviser on Political and Community Matters, Mr Crusoe Osagie as Special Adviser, …
No census has yet arrived at an accurate figure NIGERIA is Africa’s most populous country, a designation it wears with pride. It had more than 182m citizens in 2015, according to the World Bank, and is poised to have the world’s third-largest population, behind India and China, by 2050. But that figure and the extrapolation …
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The Federal Ministry of Education has denied reports that Christian Religious Knowledge, CRK, has been removed as a subject of study from the curriculum of public secondary schools in Nigeria while Islamic Religious Studies, IRS, has been reintroduced. Director of Press, Federal Ministry of Education, Mrs. Chinenye Ihuoma, who denied the report, said the Ministry …
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