title: Dapchi
text: # Dapchi
  
  Dapchi is a town in Yobe State, northeast Nigeria. It is 75 kilometres south of the border with Niger.
  
  12°30′N 11°30′E﻿ / ﻿12.500°N 11.500°E﻿ / 12.500; 11.500
  
  ## History
  
  On 19 February 2018, 110 girls were kidnapped from the Government Science and Technical College in Dapchi by Boko Haram insurgents. On 21 March 2018, 101 of the girls were dropped back to the town.
  
  