When 276 Nigerian girls went to school two years ago, 219 of them never came home. The human rights group Amnesty International has called for the Nigerian government to "do all it lawfully can to bring an end to the agony of the parents of the Chibok girls and all those abducted." M.K. Ibrahim, country director of Amnesty International Nigeria, says: "Few of us can begin to comprehend the suffering of parents who have not seen their daughters for two years." The simple facts of what happened

At a private school in Lagos, Nigeria, armed security guards escort parents dropping off their children, who are prime targets for the country's kidnappers. The schoolchildren are the sons and daughters of politicians, business tycoons, foreign diplomats and senior oil and gas bosses. With kidnapping for ransom on the rise — many parents drive cars with blacked-out windows and obscured licence plates. "I'm afraid of anything bad happening to my kids," says Lara, a resident of Lagos, Nigeria's

​The ground is thick with mud and sewage. Wooden planks and tires scatter the slum, making a precarious pathway. "We have to walk," says Oluwaseun Femi Ijitola, a 34-year-old taxi driver known as Seun. "No vehicle can pass through." There is a look of shame in his eyes as he surveys this forgotten corner of Lagos. On the water's edge of Nigeria's largest city, in the neighbourhood of Oworonshoki, people live in dire poverty with no sanitation, electricity or any other facilities, in ramshackl

The warm waters of the Gulf of Guinea beyond the bustling navy dockyard in southern Lagos, Nigeria, can be deceptively calm. But this stretch of the Atlantic Ocean has become the world's hotspot for attacks on commercial vessels by heavily armed pirates in speedboats. And Canada is wading right in, docking in Nigeria for the first time in half a century to help the country's navy combat the threat. The International Maritime Organization (IMO), which monitors pirate attacks and other incident