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Anti-Boko Haram activist Bags Japan peace prize

A Nigerian lady who has fought against Islamist radicals Boko Haram was on Tuesday granted a Japanese peace prize worth $170,000.


Esther Ibanga, a pastor and activist in Nigeria, has kept up a vocal dissent against the kidnappings that Boko Haram has mademade almost routine, the Niwano Peace Foundation said.

The establishment said it had honored her its 20 million yen yearly prize due to the way she has enthusiastically influenced focal and neighborhood overseeing authorities in her endeavors to battle again against radicals.

“Esther has worked extensively to foster and facilitate reconciliation between conflicting religious and tribal groups,” setting up an association that has all local ladies pioneers on its enrollment, the Buddhist gathering upheld establishment said.

Boko Haram terrorist have seized several schoolgirls, bringing about worldwide shock and an online networking fight to release them.

More than 13,000 have been executed while more than one million individuals have been left homeless following 2009 as the radical aggressors attempt to cut out an Islamic state in Nigeria’s northeast.

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