Nigerian militant group Boko Haram
has seized the northeastern town of
Chibok, the home of more than 200
schoolgirls the group kidnapped earlier
this year.
Pogo Bitrus, chairman of the Chibok
elders' forum, tells VOA that militants
attacked the Borno state town late
Thursday afternoon. He says locally-
based soldiers and civilian fighters put
up a fight but were outgunned by a
large Boko Haram force.
Bitrus, speaking by phone from Abuja,
said fighting continued overnight,
adding that a military contingent from
the town of Damboa was headed to
Chibok on Friday. He said, "The fight, I
believe, is not finished yet."
Comrade Adams Aliyu Oshiomhole ShareThis Adams Aliyu Oshiomhole was born on April 4, 1952 in Iyamoh, near Auchi in today's Edo State. He was born into the humble family of Alhaji Aliyu Oshiomhole of blessed memory and Alhaja Aishetu Oshiomhole. After his secondary education, Adams Oshiomhole proceeded to the Ruskin College, Oxford where he majored in economics and industrial relations. He is also an alumnus of the prestigious National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies, Kuru. In 1969 before his tertiary education, he had taken up appointment with the Arewa Textiles Company. He was inspired to play an active role in the union because he was not satisfied with the quality of the union's leadership. Oshiomhole's other colleagues in the textile factory elected him as the union secretary after a shop-floor revolution, which he helped to organize. He became a full time trade organizer in 1975. In 1982, Adams Oshiomhole was appointed by the National Union of Textile Ga...
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