Nigeria’s Tinubu delays G20 trip amid search for 24 abducted schoolgirls

Bola Tinubu says helium suspended the travel successful airy of the abductions and a abstracted religion onslaught successful which equipped men killed 2 people.

Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu has postponed his travel to South Africa for the Group of 20 summit, promising to intensify efforts to rescue 24 schoolgirls abducted by equipped men earlier this week.

The president’s spokesperson, Bayo Onanuga, said successful a connection connected Wednesday that Tinubu suspended his departure successful airy of the girls’ abduction and a abstracted religion onslaught successful which gunmen killed 2 people.

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Tinubu had been acceptable to permission connected Wednesday, days earlier the two-day acme of the world’s starring affluent and processing nations was owed to statesman connected Saturday.

“Disturbed by the information breaches successful Kebbi State and Tuesday’s onslaught by bandits against worshippers astatine Christ Apostolic Church, Eruku, President Tinubu decided to suspend his departure” to the G20 summit, Onanuga said.

It was not wide instantly if oregon erstwhile Tinubu would permission for the play acme successful Johannesburg.

Search for abducted girls ongoing

The schoolgirls were abducted by unidentified equipped men from a secondary schoolhouse successful the northwestern municipality of Maga successful Kebbi State precocious connected Sunday night.

The attackers exchanged gunfire with constabulary earlier scaling the perimeter obstruction and abducting the students.

One of the girls managed to escape, authorities said, but the school’s vice main was killed. No radical instantly claimed work for abducting the girls, and their information was unclear.

Authorities accidental the gunmen are mostly erstwhile herders who person taken up arms against farming communities aft clashes betwixt them implicit strained resources.

In a abstracted onslaught connected a religion successful occidental Nigeria connected Tuesday, equipped men killed 2 radical during a work that was recorded and broadcast online.

Supporters of United States President Donald Trump person seized connected the unit to embolden their assertion that Christians are nether attack in Nigeria.

Trump has threatened to invade Nigeria “guns-a-blazing” implicit what right-wing lawmakers successful the US allege is simply a “Christian genocide“.

Nigeria has rejected the US president’s statements, saying much Muslims person been killed successful the country’s assorted information crises.