Nigerian girls kidnapped
Scores of protesters chanting “Bring Back Our Girls” marched Thursday, May 22, 2014, to Nigeria’s presidential villa to demand more action to free nearly 300 schoolgirls abducted by Islamic militants, but President Goodluck Jonathan did not meet with them, leaving a proxy to deliver a lecture that further angered the demonstrators.
The protesters complained of the insensitivity of Jonathan, who did not even met some of the parents of abducted children, who came to Nigeria’s capital specially to see him earlier this month. Many schools across the country also closed Thursday to protest the abductions, the government’s failure to rescue them and the killings of scores of teachers by Islamic extremists in recent years.
Text from AP Story NIGERIAN SCHOOLS CLOSE TO PROTEST KIDNAPPINGS BY ANDREW DRAKE.
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