The United Nations children’s agency UNICEF has said that more than one thousand children have been abducted by the militant group Boko Haram in the north-eastern part of Nigeria since 2013.
They were expected to stay on and enjoy the best moment of their lives, but two Nigerian brides left their wedding receptions to sit for their final exams at school.
Fifteen people were killed on Thursday when a gang of armed men attacked two banks and a police station in the central Nigerian town of Offa, police told AFP Friday.
Lassa fever has killed 142 people in Nigeria since the start of the year, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) said on Thursday, reporting a rise of 32 fatalities in a month.
18 people have been killed in an attack suspected to have been carried out by Islamist militant group Boko Haram in the northeast Nigerian city of Maiduguri.
