A statement issued by the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office in Abuja on Friday said the team arrived in Abuja on Friday morning
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The offer from President Barack Obama, which was conveyed to President Jonathan by the United States Secretary of State, John Kerry, in a telephone conversation, which began at 3:30pm, included the deployment of US security personnel and assets to work with their Nigerian counterparts in the search and rescue operation
In a statement issued in Lagos on Thursday by its Interim National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the APC expressed concern that such an incautious and insensitive statement could be made by a woman, a mother, a grandmother and a top official of the ruling PDP over an issue that is undoubtedly the worst tragedy and biggest
embarrassment to Nigeria
While enjoining all Nigerians to cooperate with the government in its effort to halt insurgency, the President also insisted that those behind the Nyanya bomb blast must be brought to book
The Nigerian girls, ages 16-18, were kidnapped from their schools two weeks ago when an armed terrorist group broke into their school
No fewer than 273 girls were abducted from Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State by suspected Boko Haram insurgents two weeks ago
The group said the continued detention of the girls had negative impact on their well-being and long-term education