Ashionye Ogene

Six months on, out­rage and sor­row over the mass school­girl ab­duc­tion has dis­ap­peared – ex­cept for fam­i­lies in Nige­ria.

A lawyer close to the armed group tries to ne­go­ti­ate for peace, and the re­turn of hun­dreds of ab­duct­ed girls.

In north­east­ern Nige­ria, the Civil­ian Joint Task Force pa­trols streets with guns, ma­chetes and even bows and ar­rows.

Amid Boko Haram at­tacks that have killed hun­dreds, north­ern Nige­ria school­girls strug­gle for ed­u­ca­tion against all odds.

Un­em­ploy­ment, ram­pant ab­ject pover­ty, and lack of ed­u­ca­tion are fu­elling drug use in Kano State.