LAGOS: Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu on Thursday ordered his minister of state for defense to go to western Kebbi state, where two dozen girls kidnapped from their boarding school earlier this week are still missing. The order for minister AlHajji Bello Matawalle to “relocate to Kebbi State over the abduction of 24 schoolgirls” came as pressure mounted on the government after US President Donald Trump this month threatened military action over what he described as the killing of Nigeria’s Christians, a narrative rejected by the Nigerian authorities.

LAGOS: A top Nigerian general has ordered his troops to fight “day and night” to rescue 25 schoolgirls whose kidnapping in the northwest has been seized on by US President Donald…

The Nigerian president will focus on rescuing the schoolgirls abducted by armed men in Kebbi State.

LAGOS: Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu on Thursday ordered his minister of state for defense to go to western Kebbi state, where two dozen girls kidnapped from their boarding…