How Kidnapping Became Big Business in Nigeria

The Journal. - A podcast by The Wall Street Journal & Gimlet

In 2014, the terrorist group Boko Haram kidnapped 276 schoolgirls in Nigeria. It gave rise to a viral Twitter movement #BringBackOurGirls and would eventually inspire hundreds of similar kidnappings in the years that followed. The WSJ's Drew Hinshaw and Joe Parkinson explain how criminal groups are building a kidnapping for ransom industry in Nigeria. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices