#BringBackOurGirls
has become the most popular hashtag in Nigeria this year, with the
Twitter trend hitting over a million tweets. Used on social media as
a way of demanding the return of over 200 schoolgirls abducted on
April 14, 2014 in Chibok Borno State, the hashtag has gone from a
local trend to receiving international attention in the last seven
days. Ibrahim Abdullahi, a lawyer in Abuja, was one of the first to
use the hashtag.
‘Initially,
this was not a coordinated campaign. It was a number of individuals
in Nigeria tweeting to raise awareness in the hope that the
international community would eventually take notice,’ Abdullahi
told the BBC.
The
hashtag is also very popular on Facebook and Instagram, receiving
over 150,000 posts on the latter. It has been posted by a number of
global celebrities and personalities including the first lady of the
United States Michelle Obama, actress Angelina Jolie and pop singer
Chris Brown. Check out the statistics on #BringBackOurGirls:...
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