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Why do child abductions keep happening in Nigeria?

Almost three hundred school children have been kidnapped in Nigeria, bringing back memories of the abduction of the Chibok girls in 2014.

Almost three hundred school children have been kidnapped in the past few days in Nigeria's Kaduna State. The recent kidnappings surpasses the abduction of almost two hundred and seventy six Chibok girls, by Boko Haram in 2014. Why do children keep getting abducted? What's going on?

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