230 kidnapped Nigerian school girls married off to insurgents

Two weeks have gone by since two hundred and thirty 15 to 16 school girls were kidnapped from there dormitories in northern Nigeria. News of the abduction was released by major newspapers in the west African country when the headteacher of the school announced that the girls had been forcibly taken away overnight. The girls had been due to sit there school exams and had stayed back for revision sessions over the Easter holidays.

The headteacher claimed that militants seized about 230 girls in the dead of the night at a high school in the nation's far northeast, a hotbed for Islamist group Boko Haram. The men armed with guns herded the girls out of bed and forced them into trucks on April 16 in the town of Chibok. The convoy of trucks then disappeared into the dense forest on the border of Cameroon.

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Parents say the girls are being given 2,000 naira (£7) to marry Boko Haram militants, according to Halite Aliyu of the Borno-Yobe People's Forum.

According to a report by BBC Hausa Service, “Some of them have been married off to insurgents. A medieval kind of slavery. You go and capture women and then sell them off,”

 Nigerians took to the streets to protest in the capital of Abuja on Wednesday and in Lagos on Thursday to demand the government do more to rescue scores of girls abducted by militants more than two weeks ago and a campaign is now hot on social media tagged, "bring back our girls". 

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