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10 Fake Military Pensioners Arrested in Adamawa

Edit All Africa 30 May 2016
[Premium Times] The Military Pensions Board, MPB, said 10 fake military pensioners were arrested during the recently conducted verification exercise for retirees displaced by the Boko Haram insurgency in the North-East ... ....

LG Election - Six Women Scale Adamawa APC Primaries

Edit All Africa 30 May 2016
[Leadership] Six women have emerged as candidates for the All Progressives Congress (APC) after the just concluded party primaries for the June 25 Local Government Election ... ....

France Backs IOM Psychosocial Support for Internally Displaced in North East Nigeria (IOM - International Organization for Migration)

Edit Public Technologies 27 May 2016
(Source. IOM - International Organization for Migration). Nigeria - The French Embassy in Nigeria and IOM Nigeria have signed an agreement for a nine-month project aimed at providing psychosocial support to conflict-affected people in the North East of the country. The project will target the two states most affected by displacement - Adamawa and Borno ... IOM has nine offices and sub-offices in the region ... Email ... + 0093794100526, Email....

ASUU Donates N5 Million Relief Items to Insurgency Victims

Edit All Africa 26 May 2016
[Daily Trust] Yola -The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has donated N5 million worth of relief materials to internally displaced persons in Adamawa State as part of its N20 million relief package for the three North-east states affected by insurgency ... ....

Nigeria: Emirs Reclaim Borno Palaces Two Years After Fleeing Boko Haram

Edit Newsweek 25 May 2016
Try Newsweek. Subscription offers ... The two Emirs hid in the bushes to evade capture or death at the hands of the group ... It continues to conduct asymmetric attacks, such as suicide bombings, armed ambushes and mass kidnappings, against both Nigerian authorities and civilians in the three northeastern Nigerian states of Borno, Adamawa and Yobe ... In Yobe, the group has killed 2,332 people in the same period and 2,840 people in Adamawa. ....

Now is the time to invest in Nigeria -Atiku

Edit Modern Ghana 23 May 2016
By Ghanaian Chronicle. Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has said there is no better time than now to invest in the Nigerian economy especially in the area of agriculture ... According to him, he and his foreign partners were encouraged by the experience garnered in setting up a similar factory in Yola, the Adamawa State capital at the height of the Boko insurgency in the North East ... Source. punchng.com. ....

Nigeria: Second 'Chibok girl' rescued from Boko Haram

Edit Graphic 22 May 2016
Army spokesman Sani Usman said in an emailed statement that the girl was among 97 women and children held hostage by Boko Haram who were freed on Thursday morning after clashes between soldiers and armed fighters in the northeastern Borno state. Thirty-five Boko Haram fighters were killed in the fighting ... He said her name was Serah Luka and she was from the northeastern town of Madagali, in the state of Adamawa, which borders Borno ... ....

Boko Haram Ex-Captives Get Sometimes Painful Lessons

Edit Voa News 21 May 2016
This week, 24 young women got a welcome distraction from studying for finals. Summoned to a common room at American University of Nigeria, they were told that a Chibok girl had been found in Borno state’s Sambisa Forest. "That’s Amina! Amina!" they shouted, exuberant, as a TV newscast showed her image ... On the AUN campus in eastern Adamawa state, "we don’t call them the Chibok girls," said Reginald Braggs, an assistant dean ... The U.S....

Doubt cast on identity of 'second rescued Chibok girl'

Edit Modern Ghana 20 May 2016
By AFP ... By (AFP) ... She told troops and civilian vigilantes she was a Christian pastor's daughter originally from Madagali, in neighbouring Adamawa state, and had been in Chibok to sit her exams. Nkeki said his records showed only two girls with the surname Luka ... A human rights activist in Mubi, Adamawa, who asked not to be identified because of the sensitive nature of his work, also said a Serah Luka was not on the list of the missing ... ....

Boko Haram - Japan Offers U.S.$1.5 Million for Food, Agriculture in Northeast

Edit All Africa 20 May 2016
[Daily Trust] Japan has extended a grant of $1.5 million to support food distribution and provision of agricultural inputs to most vulnerable internally displaced persons (IDPs) and host families in Adamawa, Borno and Yobe ... ....

Second Chibok Girl Rescued

Edit Voa News 20 May 2016
The Nigerian army says a second schoolgirl kidnapped by Boko Haram militants more than two years ago in a raid on her school has been rescued. "Her name is Miss Serah Luka," army spokesman Colonel Sani Usman said in an emailed statement, saying she was from Madagali in the state of Adamawa ... ....

'Second rescued Chibok girl' not among the 219 seized: campaign group

Edit Modern Ghana 20 May 2016
By AFP. Serah Luka was among 97 women and children rescued by Nigerian soldiers in the Damboa district of Borno state. By (AFP) ... "She was an SSS1 learner at (Government Girls Secondary School) Chibok, who was abducted by the insurgents in her home in Madagali (in neighbouring Adamawa state)," he added ... The 219 girls held were in the final year, SSS3 ... ....

Nigerian troops resque another Chibok girl

Edit The Oslo Times 20 May 2016
ANOTHER CHIBOK SCHOOL GIRL RESCUED Nigerian Solders fighting in North East part of the country has recorded another success with the Rescuing of another Chibok girl from Boko Haram militants in the area ... This was contained in a statement. Signed by Army Acting Director Public Relations Officer, Colonel Sani Usman Kukasheka and made available to newsmen ... She further added that she hails from Madagali, Adamawa State ... ....
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