A top Nigerian general has ordered his troops to fight β€œday and night” to rescue 25 schoolgirls whose kidnapping in the northwest has been seized on by US President Donald Trumpβ€˜s followers.

The early Monday morning raid on a secondary school in Kebbi State was the latest in a string of abductions of schoolchildren in northern Nigeria, more than a decade after Boko Haram’s infamous kidnapping of 276 girls in the northeast sparked international uproar.

While taking place in the Muslim-majority north, the Kebbi kid

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