A top Nigerian general has ordered his troops to fight "day and night" to rescue 25 schoolgirls whose kidnapping in the northwest has been seized on by US President Donald Trump'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 kidnapping has become another flashpoint to draw the ire of the US right following Trump's threats of military intervention over the alleged killing of Nigeria's Christians.

"You must continue day and night fighting. We must find these children," Major General Waidi Shaibu, recentl

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