Nigeria leader in missing girls plea

The cancellation of the president’s trip infuriates the schoolgirls’ relatives who are angry at the response to the kidnapping.

Nigeria’s president has cancelled his first planned visit to the village from which nearly 300 girls were kidnapped, due to security fears.

Instead of going to Chibok in northeast Borno state, Goodluck Jonathan is flying direct from the capital, Abuja, to Paris for a regional summit to discuss Boko Haram and wider security issues.

“The president was planning to go...