A crowd gathers at the scene of a bomb blast at a bus terminal in Nyayan, Abuja, Nigeria, April 14, 2014.
President Goodluck Jonathan has summoned the National Security Council to a Thursday meeting in Abuja, after an attack carried out by the suspected terrorists group in in Nyanya motor park in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja and the abduction of more than 100 school girls in Borno state.
In a Wednesday statement, Reuben Abati said the president was particularly concerned about Monday's mass kidnapping of girls of Government Secondary School(GSS) in Borno state.
Abati said Jonathan has ordered security forces to "deploy maximum efforts" toward rescuing the girls.
There were no initial claims of responsibility, but the assault is similar to attacks that have been carried out by the Boko Haram terroristst group.
The incident took place on the same day a bomb ripped through a crowded motor park in Nyanya ,Abuja, killing at least 75 people.
The government of the Borno state region announced it was offering a reward of about $300,000 for information leading to the rescue of the abducted school girls.
An unidentified parent in the region has urged the kidnappers suspected to be terrorists group, Boko Haram, to free the girls. "We, the parents, are really shocked. Please, please, please have mercy. Be merciful and release those children."
The abductions were condemned by the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon,Canadian Foreign Affairs minister, John Baird and the British Foreign Secretary, Mr. Williams Hague.
In a Wednesday statement, Reuben Abati said the president was particularly concerned about Monday's mass kidnapping of girls of Government Secondary School(GSS) in Borno state.
Abati said Jonathan has ordered security forces to "deploy maximum efforts" toward rescuing the girls.
There were no initial claims of responsibility, but the assault is similar to attacks that have been carried out by the Boko Haram terroristst group.
The incident took place on the same day a bomb ripped through a crowded motor park in Nyanya ,Abuja, killing at least 75 people.
The government of the Borno state region announced it was offering a reward of about $300,000 for information leading to the rescue of the abducted school girls.
An unidentified parent in the region has urged the kidnappers suspected to be terrorists group, Boko Haram, to free the girls. "We, the parents, are really shocked. Please, please, please have mercy. Be merciful and release those children."
The abductions were condemned by the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon,Canadian Foreign Affairs minister, John Baird and the British Foreign Secretary, Mr. Williams Hague.
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