Haruna Umar, Author at Daily Hampshire Gazette

Aishat Alhaji , second, right, one of the kidnapped girls from the Government Girls Science and Technical College Dapchi who was freed, is photographed after her release, in Dapchi, Nigeria, Wednesday March. 21, 2018. Witnesses say Boko Haram militants have returned an unknown number of the 110 girls who were abducted from their Nigeria school a month ago. (AP Photo/Jossy Ola)

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Boko Haram returns Nigeria girls, warns not to put in school

by Haruna Umar Associated Press, and Krista Larson Associated PressMarch 21, 2018

DAPCHI, Nigeria — Boko Haram Islamic extremists brought back nearly all of the 110 girls they had kidnapped from a boarding school last month, dropping them off in the middle of the night Wednesday with a warning: “Don’t ever put your daughters in…

In this image supplied by MSF, a man carries an injured child following a military air strike at a camp for displaced people in Rann, Nigeria, Tuesday Jan. 17, 2017. Relief volunteers are believed to be among the more than 100 dead after a Nigerian Air Force jet fighter mistakenly bombed the refugee camp, while on a mission against Boko Haram extremists. Medical condition of the child unknown. (Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) via AP)

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Nigerian air force bombs refugee camp, killing scores

by Haruna Umar Associated Press, and Bashir Adigun Associated PressJanuary 17, 2017

This undated image taken from video distributed Sunday shows an alleged Boko Haram soldier standing in front of a group of girls alleged to be some of the 276 abducted Chibok schoolgirls held since April 2014, in an unknown location.

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Boko Haram: Some abducted girls killed in airstrikes

by Michelle Faul Associated Press, and Haruna Umar Associated PressAugust 14, 2016

FILE -In this Monday, April, 21. 2014 file photo, soldiers stand guard in front of the government secondary school Chibok, in Chibok. Nigeria. One of the teenagers kidnapped by Boko Haram extremists over two years ago from a school in northeastern Nigeria has been found with a baby and was reunited Wednesday, May 18, 2016 with her mother — the first of the Chibok girls to be freed since the mass abduction. Nigerian hunters found the young woman and baby wandering near the Sambisa Forest and her uncle describes her as traumatized. (AP Photo/ Haruna Umar File)

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Nigerian girl taken in 2014 found alive

by Michelle Faul Associated Press, and Haruna Umar Associated PressMay 19, 2016