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Why Nigerians join Boko Haram
It's been two years since the Islamist group Boko Haram kidnapped 276 girls from a school in the town of Chibok, in north-eastern Nigeria. But not all civilians are forced to join the group. Some young men are convinced through religious principle. For others it's economic hardship that led them to join the Islamist group. Newsday's Nkem Ifejika is in Yola --northeastern Nigeria-- where he heard one young man's story.
(Caption: People look at a poster in Maiduguri displaying one hundred Boko Haram suspects wanted by the Nigerian army, in October 2015. Credit:/AFP/Getty Images)
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