House of Reps to investigate N500m Chibok school reconstruction fund

Five years after the kidnapping of 276 girls from Chibok, many schools in northeastern Nigeria are still not safe. Student numbers have dropped and education is still suffering under the threat of Boko Haram.

Filmmaker uses VR to show the plights of Chibok mothers.

VP Yemi Osinbajo visits the family of a deceased Channels TV reporter, signs condolence register at the residence of the Owolabis in Zaria.

Google has closed down 210 channels on its platform for uploading videos about the on-going protests in Hong Kong. Some of the accounts were said to have posed as news organizations and entities but are discovered to have links to the Chinese government. This came days after Twitter and Facebook disabled hundreds of related accounts to the protest.

Chibok Girls: We don't know the amount paid for their release - Sen. Ali Ndume

80 percent of Boko Haram fighters are from Borno State

Documentary filmmaker, Joel Kachi Benson explains the process behind the award-winning Virtual Reality documentary, Daughters of Chibok. The moving and immersive documentary introduces viewers to the reality of one of the mothers of the kidnapped Chibok girls. Benson talks about the technicalities involves in shooting a VR film and how he has to trust his subjects in the documentary to interpret his directions.

The Borno state government has revived the monthly environmental sanitation exercise since it was last observed twenty-six years ago. The government believes this will help keep the streets clean even as the state gradually recover from the recent insurgent attack.

The closure of borders by President Muhammadu Buhari has encouraged and stimulated the production of local rice production in Borno state.

On the night of 14–15 April 2014, 276 female students were kidnapped from the Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State by Boko Haram extremists. Since then, a number of the girls have either been rescued by the Nigerian Army or freed by the extremist terrorist organization. 112 students remain missing though, and Yana Galang, the mother of one of the girls who has been missing since 2014 remains hopeful of someday seeing her daughter again.

The House of Representatives has summoned the Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, on planned strike by the electricity workers.

Pro-impeachment protesters rally outside the US Capitol as the House of Representatives convenes for a historic debate and vote to impeach Donald Trump.