Lagos (Nigeria), Geneva – Prominent officials in Nigeria wondered about the silence by mainstream media, especially western publishing houses when it comes to atrocities BY terrorist group ‘Boko Haram' against civilians, while a new report revealed the damage caused by the group against teachers and students there. Former Head of State in Nigera, Retired Nigerian Army General Abdulsalami Abubakar and former Secretary General of the Commonwealth, Chief Emeka Anyaoku, have asked journalists to write more books on burning national issues especially the Boko Haram insurgency and abduction of the Chibok schoolgirls, to help Nigerians know what happened and fashion solutions on the way forward. Abubakar said it is sad that three years after the abduction of the Chibok schoolgirls no book has been written and none also has been written on the Boko Haram insurgency that started in 2002 but blossomed in 2009 after the killing of its founder, Mohammed Yusuf, in Police custody. On the night of 14–15 April 2014, 276 female students were kidnapped from the Government Secondary School in the town of Chibok in Borno State, Nigeria. Responsibility for the kidnappings was claimed by Boko Haram, an extremist and terrorist organization based in northeastern Nigeria. 57 of the schoolgirls managed to escape over the next few months and some have described their capture in appearances at international human rights conferences.
