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

Bola Tinubu, the president of Nigeria, has decided to increase efforts to rescue 24 schoolgirls who were kidnapped by armed men earlier this week. He has already scheduled a trip to South Africa.

In response to the girls’ abduction and a separate church attack in which two gunmen killed two people, the president’s spokesman, Bayo Onanuga, said in a statement on Wednesday that Tinubu had suspended his resignation.

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The two-day summit of the world’s leading rich and developing countries was scheduled to begin on Saturday, but Tinubu had been scheduled to leave on Wednesday.

President Tinubu “suspensed his departure” from the G20 summit, according to Onanuga, frustrated by security breaches in Kebbi State and the bandits’ attack on Tuesday against worshippers at Christ the Apostolic Church in Eruku.

When and if Tinubu would travel to Johannesburg for the weekend summit was not immediately known.

ongoing search for missing girls

Late on Sunday night, an unidentified armed man abducted the schoolgirls from a secondary school in Maga, Kebbi State.

Before abducting the students, the attackers exchanged gunfire with police.

According to authorities, one of the girls managed to escape, but the vice principal of the school was killed. No one immediately took the girls’ kidnappers to court, and neither party’s motives were known.

Authorities claim that the gunmen are mostly former herders who have resisted farming communities because of resource conflicts.

Armed men killed two people on Tuesday in a separate attack on a church in western Nigeria as part of a live-streamed online service.

Donald Trump’s supporters claim that Christians are being attacked in Nigeria by using the violence to bolster their claim.

Trump has threatened to “guns-a-blazing” in Nigeria over what right-wing US lawmakers claim is a “Christian genocide.”