Chibok
30 Nov 2022
These are some of the Chibok Girls abducted in 2014 by Boko Haram terrorists and later rescued by the Nigerian military. On Tuesday, 29 November 2022, some of them were presented to the public and The Guardian’s Leo Sobechi witnessed the presentation.
9 Aug 2021
The schoolgirl surrendered to the military last month along with someone she married in captivity. The governor said she will receive psychological and medical care. Over 100 schoolgirls are still missing.
17 Oct 2019
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.
7 Oct 2019
Some gunmen have kidnapped six girls and two staffs of Engravers College in Kaduna State of Northern Nigeria. Meanwhile, Saturday marks 2000 days since the abduction of 276 female students from a Government Secondary School in the town of Chibok in Nigeria’s Borno State. To discuss these stories, Oby Ezekwesili, Richard Weizsäcker fellow at Robert Bosch Academy, Berlin joins CNBC Africa for more.
30 Apr 2019
Filmmaker uses VR to show the plights of Chibok mothers.
29 Apr 2019
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.
16 Apr 2019
Documentary takes a viewers to Chibok in virtual reality form
16 Apr 2019
Bukky Shonibare speaks on 5th anniversary of Chibok girls abduction.
15 Apr 2019
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.
17 Apr 2018
Senior Pastor, Latter Rain Assembly, Tunde Bakare has accused President Muhammadu Buhari and the All Progressive Congress (APC) of not doing enough to secure the release of the remaining 130 Chibok schoolgirls and Leah Sharibu.
18 Nov 2017
We are doing our best to rescue remaining Chibok girls – Buhari
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