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Borno’s Askira-Uba school children: The abduction Nigeria chose to ignore, By Zainab Suleiman Okino

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Zainab Suleiman Okino writes about Sule Lamido and his new biography.

In a conversation on the now-ubiquitous insecurity involving the abduction of schoolchildren, I asked an acquaintance what she knew about the abduction of 42 pupils from Primary and Junior Secondary Schools in Mussa, Askira-Uba Local Government Area of Borno State, by alleged Boko Haram/ISWAP terrorists. She told me outright she had never heard of it. […]

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