Hundreds of School girls Are Held Captive in Nigeria

On the night of 14–15 April 2014, approximately 276 female students were kidnapped from the Government Secondary School in the town of Chibok in Borno State, Nigeria.

The students were aged 16 to 18 and were in their final year of school
These girls were abducted for the sole reason that their captors believe that girls have no right to an education

For a teenage girl, eight weeks in captivity could have life-time consequences — and for their families it is torture. The idea that your daughter should go to school one day and never return is every parent’s nightmare. Not to know whether they have been molested, trafficked or are even alive is a living hell.

These girls were abducted for the sole reason that their captors believe that girls have no right to an education.

The kidnappings were claimed by Boko Haram, an Islamic Jihadist and Takfiri Terrorist Organization based in Northeast Nigeria.

Boko Haram is opposed to the Westernisation of Nigeria, which they maintain is the root cause of criminal behaviour in the country

On May 05,2014 a video in which Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau claimed responsibility for the kidnappings emerged.

Shekau claimed that "Allah instructed me to sell them...I will carry out his instructions." and ''slavery is allowed in my religion, and I shall capture people and make them slaves''

He said the girls should not have been in the school and instead they should be married since girls as young as 9 are suitable for marriage

A journalist-brokered deal to secure the release of the girls in exchange for prisoners held in Nigerian jails was scrapped at a late stage on 24 May 2014 after President Goodluck Jonathan consulted with U.S., Israeli, French and British foreign ministers in Paris, where the consensus was that no deals should be struck with terrorists, and that a solution involving force was required


Former World Bank vice president Obiageli Ezekwesili, also a former member of the Nigerian cabinet, has emerged as a leader of the #BringBackOurGirls movement and addressed protesters at Unity Fountain in Abuja as the march kicked off.
She accused the military of having no coherent search-and-rescue plan.
"We are going to the National Assembly because that is where each of these girls has a representative," she said.