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                    [Title] => Troops drive Boko Haram extremists out of Nigerian school
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Nigerian troops have driven Boko Haram extremists out of an abandoned northeastern primary school in a shootout that killed four militants, the army said yesterday.

[DatePublished] => 2015-11-02 13:11:38 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1406653 [Title] => 13-year-old girl: My father gave me to Boko Haram [Summary] =>

A 13-year-old says her father gave her to Boko Haram extremists and that she was arrested after refusing to explode a suicide bomb in Kano, Nigeria's second largest city in the north.

[DatePublished] => 2014-12-26 02:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1357267 [AuthorName] => Ibrahim Garba [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1392755 [Title] => Nigerian army says it has regained town of Chibok [Summary] =>

The Nigerian army has regained control of Chibok, the northeastern town where more than 200 schoolgirls were kidnapped by Islamic extremists more than six months ago, said army officials.

[DatePublished] => 2014-11-17 07:06:45 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1347498 [AuthorName] => Haruna Umar and Chika Oduah [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1344615 [Title] => Nigeria: 'Good news' soon on kidnapped girls [Summary] =>

Nigeria's National Council of State is promising to deliver "some good news" very soon about more than 200 schoolgirls held captive by Islamic extremists for nearly three months.

[DatePublished] => 2014-07-10 02:16:47 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1163246 [AuthorName] => Bashir Adigun and Michelle Faul [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1343829 [Title] => 63 abducted females escape extremists in Nigeria [Summary] =>

More than 60 Nigerian girls and women abducted by Islamic extremists two weeks ago have managed to escape, officials said yesterday, though more than 200 girls who were kidnapped in April remain missing.

[DatePublished] => 2014-07-08 06:22:34 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1347504 [AuthorName] => Haruna Umar and Michelle Faul [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1323623 [Title] => YWCA call to action on kidnapped Nigerian girls [Summary] =>

The YWCA of the Philippines, Inc., fully supported by its 26 local associations, joins the more than 126 member countries of the World YWCA in support of the YWCA of Nigeria and the rest of the world in calling for urgent and immediate safe return of the 276 girls kidnapped from a state school in the town of Chibok by armed and uniformed men on April 15.

[DatePublished] => 2014-05-16 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Letters to the Editor [SectionUrl] => letters-to-the-editor [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1322232 [Title] => Nigeria refused help to search for kidnapped girls [Summary] =>

The president of Nigeria for weeks refused international help to search for more than 300 girls abducted from a school by Islamic extremists, one in a series of missteps that have led to growing international outrage against the government.

[DatePublished] => 2014-05-12 07:06:17 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1520220 [AuthorName] => Michelle Faul [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1320726 [Title] => Nigerian official: Hundreds killed in attack [Summary] =>

Islamic militants killed hundreds of people in an attack on a border town in Nigeria's remote northeast, escalating the country's violent insurrection in which more than 270 schoolgirls have been kidnapped.

[DatePublished] => 2014-05-08 06:44:38 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1520220 [AuthorName] => Michelle Faul [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) ) )
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