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Hundreds of Nigerian schoolboys who were abducted by Boko Haram huddled in a government building today after they were freed from their Islamist captors. Dressed in dusty clothes and looking exhausted by their ordeal but otherwise well, the boys arrived on buses in the city of Katsina on Friday after authorities announced that 344 children … Read more
More than 300 schoolboys abducted last week by armed men in northwestern Nigeria have been freed, authorities have confirmed. Boko Haram militants kidnapped hundreds of children from the all-boys Government Science Secondary School in northwestern Katsina state last Friday. Around 800 students had been present at the school when it was attacked by armed men on … Read more
Boko Haram have released footage of dozens of the more than 300 schoolboys it kidnapped last week in Nigeria. A distraught teenager, surrounded by dozens of younger boys, speaks in English and Hausa saying: ‘We have been caught by the gang of Abu Shekau.’ His voice starts to falter as he says: ‘Please, please, we need … Read more
Faced with a barrage of questions about the dubious graphs they wheeled out during Saturday night’s Halloween Horror press conference, Sir Patrick Vallance and Professor Chris Whitty spent much of yesterday’s Commons select committee hearing shifting in their seats. But there was one question in particular that got Sir Gloom and Professor Doom extremely hot … Read more
Police arrest two 14-year-old schoolboys for attempted murder after 56-year-old man is stabbed in head and neck in street row Police raced to Southampton city centre after knifing in the early hours Tuesday Officers were called by paramedics who were first to attend the attack in Weston The boys, 14, were arrested on suspicion of … Read more
Fears grow for two schoolboys, aged 14 and 15, who ‘went missing together’ nearly one week ago Cameron Gianni, 15, and Daniel Jones, aged 14, were last seen on September 8 The boys – from Didcot and Benson respectively – are believed to be together Daniel is described as white, around 5foot 8inches tall with short blond … Read more
The Duchess of Sussex made a surprise visit to a school to deliver an International Women’s Day message to schoolboys to ‘protect the women in your lives’. In one of her last solo engagements as a working royal Meghan, who also revealed that ten-month-old Archie is trying to walk, spoke with delighted pupils at the … Read more