Nigeria - Extremists Kidnap New Group of 200+ Girls, 14 Apr 2014

[ZaZara]

Over 100 abducted children, women freed: Nigeria army

Nigerian army has rescued over 100 children and women from Boko Haram captivity in the country’s restive northeastern region, as troops embarked on fresh clearance operations, a military spokesman said on Wednesday.

“Dozens of Boko Haram (and Daesh) terrorists were annihilated, large cache of assorted arms, ammunition and so many variants of gun trucks and other fighting vehicles were captured,” Sagir Musa, the army spokesman, said in a statement.

“Additionally and most importantly, the operation resulted in the rescue and eventual liberation of over 100 women and children from the grip of the criminals/terrorists,” the statement added.


BBM

 

[JerseyGirl]

'Daughters of Chibok,' documentary on missing schoolgirls wins at Venice Film Festival - CNN

The documentary, which also had its premiere at the festival, tells the story of Yana Galang, whose daughter was among the 276 girls kidnapped in April 2014 from their school dormitory in Chibok, northeast Nigeria.

 

[dotr]

Very moving documentary!
Stolen Daughters: Kidnapped by Boko Haram (2018) | Official Trailer | HBO
•Published on Oct 2, 2018

Stolen Daughters: Kidnapped by Boko Haram (2018)
TV-14 | 1h | Documentary | 2018 (USA)


0:58 | Trailer
2 VIDEOS
The story of the freed female hostages of Boko Haram, detailing their lives in captivity and since their release.
Director:
Gemma Atwal

 

[JerseyGirl]

'We cry and cry': pain endures for mothers of missing Chibok schoolgirls

 

[dotr]

Dec 15 2020
Boko Haram claims responsibiiity for kidnapping hundreds of boys from school in northern Nigeria

People inside the Government Science Secondary School in Kankara, Nigeria, Saturday Dec. 12, 2020. Nigerian police say that hundreds of students are missing after gunmen attacked the secondary school in the country’s northwestern Katsina state. Katsina State police spokesman Gambo Isah said in a statement that the Government Science Secondary School in Kankara was attacked Friday night by a large group of bandits who shot with AK-47 rifles. (AP Photo/Abdullatif Yusuf)

''LAGOS, Nigeria -- Nigeria's Boko Haram jihadist rebels have claimed responsibility for the abduction of hundreds of students in an attack on a boys school in northern Katsina State, a Nigerian online newspaper says.

More than 330 students are missing from the Government Science Secondary School in Kankara after gunmen with assault rifles attacked their school Friday night.

The Daily Nigerian said it received an audio message from Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau saying that his group abducted the schoolboys because Western education is against the tenets of Islam.

“What happened in Katsina was done to promote Islam and discourage un-Islamic practices as Western education is not the type of education permitted by Allah and his Holy Prophet,” the paper quoted Shekau as saying.''

 

[ZaZara]

It never stops.....

If they are serious about their statement that "Western education is against the tenets of Islam" they should drop their AK-47 rifles immediately.

Highly recommended.

 

[SouthAussie]

Dec 15 2020
Boko Haram claims responsibiiity for kidnapping hundreds of boys from school in northern Nigeria

People inside the Government Science Secondary School in Kankara, Nigeria, Saturday Dec. 12, 2020. Nigerian police say that hundreds of students are missing after gunmen attacked the secondary school in the country’s northwestern Katsina state. Katsina State police spokesman Gambo Isah said in a statement that the Government Science Secondary School in Kankara was attacked Friday night by a large group of bandits who shot with AK-47 rifles. (AP Photo/Abdullatif Yusuf)

''LAGOS, Nigeria -- Nigeria's Boko Haram jihadist rebels have claimed responsibility for the abduction of hundreds of students in an attack on a boys school in northern Katsina State, a Nigerian online newspaper says.

More than 330 students are missing from the Government Science Secondary School in Kankara after gunmen with assault rifles attacked their school Friday night.

The Daily Nigerian said it received an audio message from Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau saying that his group abducted the schoolboys because Western education is against the tenets of Islam.

“What happened in Katsina was done to promote Islam and discourage un-Islamic practices as Western education is not the type of education permitted by Allah and his Holy Prophet,” the paper quoted Shekau as saying.''

Oh no.

I guess they are on a big recruitment drive ... recruitment by force.
Those poor boys.

 

[dotr]

Surprising good news!
De 18 2020
Freed Nigerian schoolboys welcomed after week of captivity

Nigerian soldiers lead a group of schoolboys on Friday Dec. 18, 2020 in Katsina, Nigeria following their release after they were kidnapped earlier this week. More than 300 schoolboys kidnapped last week in an attack on their school in northwest Nigeria have arrived in the capital of Katsina state to celebrate their release. The boys were abducted one week ago from the all-boys Government Science Secondary School in Kankara in Katsina state village. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

''KATSINA, Nigeria - More than 300 Nigerian schoolboys, freed after being kidnapped last week in an attack on their school, have arrived in the capital of Katsina state to celebrations of their release.

The boys were abducted on the night of Dec. 11 from the all-boys Government Science Secondary School in Kankara village in Katsina state in northwestern Nigeria.

The students arrived Friday in Katsina, the capital of the state, and met with Katsina Gov. Aminu Bello Masari.

Bleary-eyed and appearing stunned by their ordeal, the boys piled into chairs in a conference room, most still in their school uniforms, some wrapped in gray blankets. The oldest of the boys sat in the front row and were greeted by officials.

Masari had announced their release late Thursday, saying 344 boarding school students were turned over to security officials. Masari told The Associated Press that no ransom was not paid to secure the boys' freedom.''

 

[dotr]

Feb 1 2021
Nearly 7 years later, Nigerian army still rescuing Chibok schoolgirls from Boko Haram

FILE - In this Friday March 23, 2018 file photo, recently released abduction victims, School girls from the Government Girls Science and Technical College Dapchi, pose for a photograph after a meeting with Nigeria President, Muhammadu Buhari, at the Presidential palace in Abuja, Nigeria. Nigeria's decade-long battle against Islamic extremism was complicated by the rise of the Islamic State West Africa Province, an offshoot of Boko Haram. In an echo of the mass abduction of Chibok schoolgirls, the IS-affiliated fighters swept into Dapchi village and seized more than 100 girls. (AP Photo/Azeez Akunleyan, File)

''ABUJA, Feb 1 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) -- Nearly seven years since Islamist militants kidnapped two of his daughters from their school in northeastern Nigeria, a hurried phone call let Ali Maiyanga know that his family's ordeal might soon be over.

The call on Thursday evening was from Maiyanga's daughter Halima, who - along with her sister Maryam - was among more than 200 schoolgirls snatched by Boko Haram insurgents in Chibok in April 2014, sparking a global #BringBackOurGirls campaign.

"I was crying, she was crying," said Maiyanga, who was preparing to get married to his fourth wife when he heard Halima's voice down the line.

"We couldn't talk long because I was surrounded by so many people and the place was noisy. Everybody started jumping up and down when I told them," said Maiyanga, father of 18 children, who was reunited with his other kidnapped daughter in 2016.

Halima, 23, told him she had been rescued by the Nigerian army, but Maiyanga said he did not know her exact whereabouts or if she was alone or with more of her kidnapped former classmates.''

 

[dotr]

Feb 26 2021
Second armed mass kidnapping in a week sees 317 school girls taken in Nigeria

An empty student's hostel is seen following an attack by gunmen at Government Science College, Kagara, Nigeria, Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021. Gunmen have attacked a school in Nigeria's northcentral Niger State, killing at least one student and abducting more than 40 people including students and teachers, according to an official, teacher and a prefect. (AP Photo)

''KANO, Nigeria, Feb 26 (Reuters) -- Unidentified gunmen seized more than 300 girls in a nighttime raid on a school in northwest Nigeria on Friday and are believed to be holding some of them in a forest, police said.

It was the second such kidnapping in little over a week in a region increasingly targeted by militants and criminal gangs. There was no immediate claim of responsibility.

Police in Zamfara state said they had begun search-and-rescue operations with the army to find the "armed bandits" who took the 317 girls from the Government Girls Science Secondary School in the town of Jangebe.

"There's information that they were moved to a neighboring forest, and we are tracing and exercising caution and care," Zamfara police commissioner Abutu Yaro told a news conference.

He did not say whether those possibly moved to the forest included all of them.

Zamfara's information commissioner, Sulaiman Tanau Anka, told Reuters the assailants stormed in firing sporadically during the 1 a.m. raid.

"Information available to me said they came with vehicles and moved the students, they also moved some on foot," he said.''

"The situation at Jangebe community is tense as people mobilized to block security operatives, journalists and government officials from getting access to the main town," he said.

Parents also had no faith in authorities to return their kidnapped girls, said Mohammed Usman Jangebe, the father of one abductee, by phone.

"We are going to rescue our children, since the government isn't ready to give them protection," he said.

"All of us that have had our children abducted have agreed to follow them into to the forest. We will not listen to anyone now until we rescue our children," Jangebe said, before ending the call.''

 

[dotr]

March 2 2021
Hundreds of schoolgirls freed in northern Nigeria after armed kidnapping

Some of the students who were abducted by gunmen from the Government Girls Secondary School, in Jangebe, last week wait for a medical checkup after their release meeting with the state Governor Bello Matawalle, in Gusau, northern Nigeria, Tuesday, March 2, 2021. Zamfara state governor Bello Matawalle announced that 279 girls who were abducted last week from a boarding school in the northwestern Zamfara state have been released Tuesday.(AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

 

[dotr]

It has happened again..
March 12 2021

''Gunmen in the northwest Nigerian state of Kaduna kidnapped around 30 students on Thursday night from a forestry college near a military academy, the state's security commissioner said on Friday, in the fourth mass school abduction since December. Lauren Anthony reports.''

 

[dotr]

July 5 2021

July 25 2021
Nigerian bandits kidnap negotiator sent to pay ransom to free students | Toronto Sun
''ABUJA — Armed bandits in Nigeria have seized a negotiator who had been sent to pay ransom money to secure the release of 136 students kidnapped two months ago from an Islamic school in the north of the African nation, the school and parents said.

Abubakar Alhassan, director of the Islamic school, said the school and parents have been negotiating with the kidnappers who demanded 30 million naira ($72,993) to release the students from the school in Nigeria’s Niger state.''

“We sold most of our properties and used our savings to see that our children are returned. Unfortunately after all the effort, they said that we did not bring the money as they required,” said Ibrahim Salihu, father of two of the children abducted by the school in Niger state.

“We are now left with nothing and our children are still held captive,” he said.''

 

[SouthAussie]

July 5 2021

July 25 2021
Nigerian bandits kidnap negotiator sent to pay ransom to free students | Toronto Sun
''ABUJA — Armed bandits in Nigeria have seized a negotiator who had been sent to pay ransom money to secure the release of 136 students kidnapped two months ago from an Islamic school in the north of the African nation, the school and parents said.

Abubakar Alhassan, director of the Islamic school, said the school and parents have been negotiating with the kidnappers who demanded 30 million naira ($72,993) to release the students from the school in Nigeria’s Niger state.''

“We sold most of our properties and used our savings to see that our children are returned. Unfortunately after all the effort, they said that we did not bring the money as they required,” said Ibrahim Salihu, father of two of the children abducted by the school in Niger state.

“We are now left with nothing and our children are still held captive,” he said.''

This 'trend' of stealing schoolchildren, demanding ransom, and obtaining the children for their pleasures and potentially as recruits is so horrendous.

 

[borndem]

What's the big deal, right?! They're only girls. Oh, dear God.
Please let them all be safe. This literally takes my breath away.