MORE THAN 200 NIGERIAN SCHOOLGIRLS ABDUCTED: $ 300,000 POLICE REWARD OFFERED

More than 200 Nigerian schoolgirls aged 16 to 18 were abducted from a boarding school more than three weeks ago by Boko Haram Islamist Militants in the North-eastern state of Borno. The schoolgirls were abducted when they were writing their final exams.

Since then, $300,000 reward has been offered by the Nigerian police to anyone who can help locate and rescue the schoolgirls. Yet, the BBC's Mansur Liman in the capital, Abuja, says many are questioning why it has taken so long for such a reward to be offered, BBC online news sources have revealed.

Abubaker Sheku, one of the Boko Haram leaders admitted earlier this week that his fighters had abducted the girls from their boarding school in the town of Chibok on 14th April 2014.

In his own words, Abubaker threatened to "sell" the students, saying they should not have been in school in the first place, but rather should get married.

Meanwhile, there has been daily protests country wide and has prompted a widespread criticism of the Nigerian government for what has been called as reluctance for the government in doing anything. Nigerian residents in the US protested saying the Nigerian government should bring back their Chibok schoolgirls or he should “resign”.

The US has so far dispatched a team of experts to Nigeria and the UK has joined arms saying it will send a small team to provide the government with advisors. Other European countries have equally responded to help in the search and rescue of the abducted schoolgirls.