Hundreds of Nigerian schoolboys return after Boko Haram capture

Hundreds of Nigerian schoolboys who were abducted by Boko Haram huddled in a government building today after they were freed from their Islamist captors. Dressed in dusty clothes and looking exhausted by their ordeal but otherwise well, the boys arrived on buses in the city of Katsina on Friday after authorities announced that 344 children … Read more

Nigerian official says over 300 abducted schoolboys freed

More than 300 schoolboys abducted last week by armed men in northwestern Nigeria have been freed, authorities have confirmed.  Boko Haram militants kidnapped hundreds of children from the all-boys Government Science Secondary School in northwestern Katsina state last Friday.  Around 800 students had been present at the school when it was attacked by armed men on … Read more

ROSS CLARK: The 4,000 deaths ‘fact’ that made gloomy experts squabble like schoolboys

Faced with a barrage of questions about the dubious graphs they wheeled out during Saturday night’s Halloween Horror press conference, Sir Patrick Vallance and Professor Chris Whitty spent much of yesterday’s Commons select committee hearing shifting in their seats. But there was one question in particular that got Sir Gloom and Professor Doom extremely hot … Read more

Fears grow for two schoolboys, aged 14 and 15, who ‘went missing together’

Fears grow for two schoolboys, aged 14 and 15, who ‘went missing together’ nearly one week ago Cameron Gianni, 15, and Daniel Jones, aged 14, were last seen on September 8 The boys – from Didcot and Benson respectively – are believed to be together Daniel is described as white, around 5foot 8inches tall with short blond … Read more

Meghan Markle told Dagenham schoolboys to ‘protect the women in your life’

The Duchess of Sussex made a surprise visit to a school to deliver an International Women’s Day message to schoolboys to ‘protect the women in your lives’. In one of her last solo engagements as a working royal Meghan, who also revealed that ten-month-old Archie is trying to walk, spoke with delighted pupils at the … Read more