Nigerian authorities failed to act on warnings about Boko Haram raid on school

Headline Title: Nigerian authorities failed to act on warnings about Boko Haram raid on school 09 May 2014 Damning testimonies gathered by Amnesty International reveal that Nigerian security forces failed to act on advance warnings about Boko Haram’s armed raid on the state-run boarding school in Chibok which led to the abduction of more than 240 schoolgirls on 14-15 April. After independently verifying information based on multiple interviews with credible sources, the organization today revealed that the Nigerian security forces had more than four hours of advance…

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