Nigeria’s president promises to intensify efforts to rescue 24 abducted schoolgirls

Mihaela Chircă

SOKOTO, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria’s leader promised authorities would intensify efforts to rescue 24 schoolgirls who were abducted by gunmen earlier this week from a school in the country’s northwestern region. The girls were kidnapped from their dormitory before dawn on Monday, when gunmen attacked their boarding school, the Government Girls Comprehensive Secondary School, in the town of Maga in Nigeria’s Kebbi state. Local police said that the gunmen scaled the fence to enter the dorm and

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