The rebel province in southeast Nigeria declared independence on May 30, 1967, triggering a bitter civil war that would leave more than one million dead, most of them from famine and disease.
The Bill which has gone through 5 sessions of the National Assembly beginning from the 4th Assembly which was inaugurated in 1999 under President Olusegun Obasanjo.
A Cameroonian military official said Boko Haram militants kidnapped three women in the Far North Region, which borders Nigeria’s conflict-wrought Borno state.