'If you started running, they shot you' - inside Nigeria's growing kidnapping crisis
Then, in May this year, gunmen on motorcycles attacked three schools in Oyo state, south-west Nigeria, one of the few regions that was previously considered relatively safe.
Fatima is one of an estimated 800,000 Nigerians who the UN says have been displaced in the country's north-west.
Fatima explains how the raids unfold: "You could have 100 motorcycles, and each one could be carrying three people.
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