SOMETIMES IN HISTORY: Wives of King Jaja of Opobo in present day Rivers State in circa 1870
Wives of King Jaja of Opobo (in present day Rivers State) in circa 1870. Source: J. A. da Cunha Moraes
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Girl Who Escaped Opens Up: Boko Haram Rapés Us Up To 15 Times Everyday
As you read this, the over 200 female students abducted on April 14 from Government Girls School,Chibok, in Borno State are passing through hard times, with some of them being rapéd for as much as 15 times a day. One of the abducted girls who managed to escape made this shocking revelations. According Daily Mirror, “Families of the schoolgirls, aged between 15 to 18, are certain their daughters are now being used as séx slaves by an extreme sect that has killed 1,500 people since the start of this year alone. They are captives in the wild Sambisa Forest in north-east Nigeria where Boko Haram has a heavily armed camp of bunkers, tunnels, ramshackle buildings and tents. “ One girl who recently escaped following an earlier kidnapping said she was prized as a terror leader’s wife because she had been a virgin . She said young female captives were raped up to 15 times a day, forced to convert to Islam and had their throats cut if they refused.” Daily Mirror said that “under
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