Nigeria's police have released a statement saying they are offering a $300,000 (£177,000) cash reward to anyone who can help locate and rescue more than 200 abducted schoolgirls.
They were kidnapped more than three weeks ago by armed Islamist militants from their boarding school in the north-eastern state of Borno.Another 11 girls were taken on Sunday from villages near the militants' hideout in a nearby forest. President Obama This Morning confirmed that a team of US experts would be sent to Nigeria to help in the hunt immediately.
The statement from the police said the 50m naira reward would be given to anyone who "volunteers credible information that will lead to the location and rescue of the female students. Six telephone numbers
09-2914649
08081777309
08055547536
08032125050
08034617591
08035969731
are provided, calling on the general public to be "part of the solution to the present security challenge. The police high command also reassures all citizens that any information given would be treated anonymously and with utmost confidentiality," the statement said.It was also revealed by BBC that The UK Prime Minister David Cameron will be speaking by phone to Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan on Wednesday afternoon regarding the abductions.
Security has been tightened in the capital, Abuja, as several African leaders and Chinese Premier Li Keqiang are attending the World Economic Forum for Africa in the city, following two recent attacks there blamed on the insurgents.
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