ABUJA: More than 100 girls missing for a week after a Boko Haram attack on their school in northeast Nigeria were kidnapped, the government said for the first time on Monday. The attack has revived painful memories in Nigeria of the mass abduction of 276 girls from another boarding school in Chibok in April 2014. Buhari, a former military ruler, was elected in 2015 on a promise to end the Boko Haram insurgency, which since it started nine years ago has claimed at least 20,000 lives. The abduction in Dapchi comes after repeated claims from the military and government that Boko Haram was on the verge of defeat. Boko Haram, whose name translates roughly from Hausa as “Western education is forbidden“, has repeatedly targeted schools teaching a so-called secular curriculum.

Source: New Strait Times February 26, 2018 16:18 UTC