Nigeria

Photo: Wikimedia Commons This week marked the dubious one-year anniversary of the kidnappings of 219 schoolgirls in northeastern Nigeria by Boko Haram -- an Islamist faction that's terrorized the country for six years, almost with impunity. The havoc wrought by these jihadists ...read more

• By Michael Luciano
  Dec 20, 2018

Aside from attacking Michelle Obama for publicly showing concern and lying about President Obama, one of the major spokes in the conservative effort to politicize the kidnapping of 284 schoolgirls in Nigeria has been to criticize the Obama administration for not designating Boko ...read more

• By Tommy Christopher
  Nov 9, 2018

In response to an op/ed in The Guardian that calls for feminists in the west to support the effort to find 270 teenage Nigerian girls kidnapped by Islamic jahadists known as Boko Haram, Glenn Greenwald tweeted the following: So according to Greenwald supporting the effort to ...read more

• By Bob Cesca
  Nov 9, 2018

Happy Tuesday! Let's just all take one collective sigh before we get going. Here's what's happening on the interweb: 1. US 'Outraged' As Calls Grow to Help Rescue Nigeria Schoolgirls The US says it considers the abduction of more than 200 Nigerian schoolgirls by Islamist ...read more

• By Bryce Rudow
  Nov 9, 2018

In June of this year, the tragic, yet amazing story of Harrison Okene's survival in a capsized tugboat that sank off the coast of Nigeria stunned the world. Trapped in a 4ft sq. air pocket 100ft underwater in freezing temperatures, Okene survived on no food and some cans of Coca ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018