New Delhi: Boko Haram, the group of militant extremists in Nigeria, have grabbed headlines in the past week thanks to their brazen kidnapping of 275 girls, aged between 16 and 18, from a boarding school in the town of Chibok on April 14.
This militant Islamist group has caused havoc in Africa's most populous country through a wave of bombings, assassinations and abductions.
They are fighting to overthrow the government and create an Islamic state.
