Anxious and angry parents who were reunited with the girls after six days of waiting grabbed their daughters and left after shots rang out. Many were worried about traveling on the area’s…
“This news bring overwhelming joy,” Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari wrote on Twitter. “I am pleased that their ordeal has come to a happy end without any incident.” Though local authorities initially said…
“We are not in (a) good mood because when you have five children and you are able to secure (just) one. We only thank God … But we are not happy,” said…
LAGOS, Nigeria — An official says 42 people including 27 students who were abducted two weeks ago from a school in northern Nigeria have been freed. The chief press secretary for the Niger…
The students, teachers and family members were abducted by gunmen from the Government Science College Kagara. Their release was announced a day after police said gunmen had abducted 317 girls from a…
LAGOS, Nigeria — Hundreds of girls are missing after a large group of gunmen raided a school in northern Nigeria early Friday morning, residents say. The Government Secondary Jangebe School in Zamfara…
Dr Simon Clarke, an associate professor of cellular microbiology at the University of Reading, sounded the alarm bell about the new strain’s potential resistance to current vaccines. He told The Guardian: “We…
“First responders are at the scene. Sadly, all 7 personnel on board died in the crash,” he said. Hadi Sirika, the minister of aviation, also tweeted that the crash “appears to be…