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Published 9 May 2021
Leah Sharibu was one of the 110 schoolgirls kidnapped from Government Girls’ Science and Technical College in Dapchi, Yobe State, in February 2018 by Boko Haram insurgents. Her mother, Mrs Rebecca Sharibu, speaks to
TOBI AWORINDE ahead of her daughter’s 18th birthday on Friday, May 14, 2021
Your
daughter has been in Boko Haram captivity for over three years. Why do you think the government has failed to rescue her?
I think the reason they have left my daughter in captivity is because she is a Christian. All the other girls that were taken were Muslims and they were all released. But my daughter is still in captivity, I believe, because of her faith. If not, why have they not yet released my daughter? What crime has she committed? She only refused to renounce her Christian faith.
By Olalekan Adigun, a Public Affairs Analyst
Reno Omokri, a former social media aide to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, needs no introduction in the socio-political space in Nigeria, especially on social media where he misinforms his over 900,000 Twitter followers, over 120,000 Facebook followers and his over 500,000 Instagram followers.
The self acclaimed-pastor and member of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, is the leading errand boy of all opposition politicians on social media, as he attacks the All Progressives Congress government of the day simply because of one sin: ejecting the Jonathan government out of office in a keenly contested and won poll in 2015.
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Nigeria’s army is under pressure to improve protection for minority Christians amid increased Islamic attacks.
ABUJA, NIGERIA (BosNewsLife)– An abducted Christian schoolgirl, who refused to convert to Islam, has given birth to a second child while held captive by Islamist militants, several sources confirmed.
Leah Sharibu, held captive in Nigeria by terror group Boko Haram for more than three years, gave birth to the child at the end of 2020, Christian rights activists and her parents said.
BosNewsLife usually does not publish names of victims of suspected sexual abuse unless already publicly revealed and agreed to by victims, in this case, her parents whose daughter was abducted.
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