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A public art installation created by Nigerian artist Sarah Peace in Epping Forest, depicting the missing girls with black veiled figures [127] [128] After the kidnapping, Governor Kashim Shettima demanded to visit Chibok, despite being advised that it was too dangerous.
Dapchi is located in Bulabulin, Bursari Local Government area of Yobe State, in the northeast part of Nigeria. [1] [2] [3] The federal government of Nigeria deployed the Nigerian Air Force and other security agencies to search for the missing schoolgirls and to hopefully enable their return. [4]
Child marriage [25] [26] is quite common in Nigeria, with about 43% of girls getting married before the age of 18 years, and 17% before they turn 15. [18] The prevalence, however, varies greatly by region. [18] Nigeria's total fertility rate is 5.07 children/woman. [27]
The girls were abducted on Friday from a boarding school in the increasingly lawless northwestern part of Nigeria — where another brazen school kidnapping happened just the week before ...
Amnesty International on Monday accused the Nigerian army of illegally detaining girls and young women who have escaped from Boko Haram captivity because the military believes they support the ...
Aisha Somtochukwu Yesufu [1] pronunciation ⓘ (born 12 December 1973), [2] is a Nigerian political activist and businesswoman. [3] [4] [5] She is the co-founder of #BringBackOurGirls movement, which brought attention to the abduction of over 200 girls from a secondary school in Chibok, Nigeria on the 14th of April, 2014, by the terrorist group Boko Haram.
As of 2012, 27% of Nigerian women aged 15 to 49 underwent FGM. [5] While in some regions of Nigeria, the prevalence of FGM has halved in the past 30 years as of 2016, [3] as of 2022 it is rising among girls aged 0–14, placing Nigeria as the third highest country for FGM worldwide in terms of percentage, according to UNICEF. [6]
(Reuters) - Boko Haram fighters killed older boys and men in front of their families before taking women and children into the forest where many died of hunger and disease, freed captives said on ...