Simon Ateba is Chief White House Correspondent for Today News Africa. Simon covers President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, the U.S. government, the United Nations, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and other financial and international institutions in Washington D.C. and New York City.
Northern Nigerian students, who were abducted on December 11 from the Government Science Secondary School, Kankara, Katsina state, have pleaded for help in a new video released on Thursday by the Abubakar Shekau-led faction of the terrorist organization, Boko Haram.