The girls' intense and long period of social isolation will require special practices to aid their integration back into the public.
Is there finally good news coming out of Nigeria? It’s being reported that Nigerian troops rescued 200 girls and 93 women Tuesday in the Sambisa Forest, the Nigerian Armed Forces announced on its official Twitter account. It is still unknown whether or not any of the girls were among the initial 200 who were kidnapped […]
Although social media has significantly quieted down on this issue in recent months, #bringbackourgirls is still an extremely urgent topic that warrants our unwavering attention.
Over the weekend, the terrorist group Boko Haram declared their sudden allegiance to that other terrorist clan ISIS. Boko Haram shared an audio message on their Twitter account, (sidenote: Why are they even allowed on social media?) claiming that rumored leader Abu Bakr Shekau said Boko Haram would “obey in times of difficulty and prosperity” as allies to ISIS. MUST […]
Boko Haram is still terrorizing Nigeria and all we can say is #BringBackOurGirls. It’s been 10 months since they kidnapped the Chibok tribe schoolgirls and a majority of them are still being hold hostage, only a small percentage of girls have managed to escape. Three of those girls, Abigail John, Dorcas Aiden, and the third escapee who […]
Nigerian local hunters ‘vigilantes’ to fight against Boko Haram They just won’t let up. Boko Haram has attacked Nigeria again, this time they gunned for Maiduguri, a prominent city in Nigeria with a population of over 600,000. It’s being reported that on Sunday hundreds of Boko Haram gunmen launched a predawn attack and were locked […]
Queens Of Africa a Nigeria-based company has released the latest line of pretty Black Barbies and they’re hugely popular and have impressively surpassed the sales of iconic Barbie. We all know that as a little girl, a Black Barbie was probably best thing we could’ve ever clutched out of our toy box. Since those days, other brands […]
Over the weekend, an alleged 10-year-old Nigerian girl detonated explosives that were strapped to her body in a crowded market in Maiduguri, Nigeria. The explosives detonated as the girl was being screened with a metal detector at the market’s entrance, he said. It’s standard procedure for people to be screened before entering the market, as […]
Boko Haram, the same terrorist group that kidnapped more than 200 Nigerian schoolgirls last spring, has executed the “deadliest massacre” in the its history, according to Amnesty International. It is feared that over 2,000 civilians have been murdered, with the majority of them being women, children and the elderly. Many of the bodies that were found […]
At only 14-years-old, Wasilat Tasi’u is a child bride and now she’s a convicted murderer. Tasi’u killed her thirty-five year husband Umar Sani as a desperate attempt to be set free of the subordination of their arranged marriage and now she’s possibly facing the death penalty. MUST READ: They’re Not Coming Home: Boko Haram Leader Claims Missing […]
A suicide bomber disguised in a school uniform detonated explosives at a high school assembly in the northeastern Nigerian city of Potiskum on Monday, killing at least 48 students (11-20-years-old), according to survivors and a morgue attendant. There were over 2,000 students gathered for the weekly assembly at the Government Technical Science College when the […]
The Nigerian schoolgirls who were abducted by Boko Haram from Chibok in April may not make it home. The leader of Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau said in a recent video that there has been no cease-fire in Nigeria (as the media has been reported) and that no agreement had been made to free the girls. […]
