32-year-old Maria David Zaya is desperately battling to recover her daughter, who was kidnapped at age 2, by Boko Haram terrorists in September 2014, while she was visiting her in-laws in Madagali in Adamawa state.
Precious, now almost five, was taken captive along with six other children and two women who lived in the same neighbourhood. Two weeks later, one of the women who escaped told Mrs Zaya that Precious had been quite favoured in captivity because of her light skin and pretty face, and given to one of the wives of an "amir", a Boko Haram commander, who did not have any children of her own.
Worried about the thought of not seeing her daughter ever again, Mrs Zaya returned to Port Harcourt, in the southern state of Rivers, where her husband, David, works as a security man. Shortly after, she gave birth to her second child, a boy named Emma.