Jewel Bright
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120 appearances
19 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard 5 Sep
Jewel Bright’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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A total of 39 school children aged between 4 and 16 and 7 teachers were taken during the abduction in May and at least one teacher died in captivity.
The abduction sparked anger across Nigeria and led to several protests and strike actions by teachers across the country.
School abductions for ransom have become commonplace across Nigeria in recent years amid a worsening security crisis in the country.
Jewel Bright, NPR News, Lagos.
Omar Attan was stopped at Miami International Airport by U.S.
Customs and Border Protection officers and repatriated to Turkey from where he will return home today.
U.S.
Customs and Border Protection put out a statement without directly mentioning Attan, saying a Somali national was deemed inadmissible due to vetting concerns.
Attan was named Africa's best referee last year.
and he was set to become the first Somali referee to officiate in a World Cup tournament.
The president of soccer's governing body, FIFA, previously addressed concerns around U.S.
travel bans by saying teams and officials need to access any World Cup host country.
Otherwise, there would be no World Cup.
Drew Bright, NPR News, Lagos.
Authorities say the gunmen attacked the town of Ngoche and abducted hundreds of residents, including women and children.
No group has claimed responsibility.
But local officials say the attack was likely a reprisal for the killing of three senior commanders of the Boko Haram Islamist militant group.
Since January, militants have abducted and released hundreds of Nigerians across several states, and the Nigerian government has been accused of paying ransoms.
Stepped-up security cooperation between Nigeria and the US follows controversial claims by the Trump administration of a genocide against Christians.
Last month, around 200 US soldiers were deployed to Nigeria to train and support the local military.
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