William Hague offers Nigeria help on schoolgirl kidnap


  • World
  • Tuesday, 06 May 2014

Britain's Foreign Secretary William Hague arrives for a cabinet meeting at 10 Downing Street in central London April 8, 2014. REUTERS/Paul Hackett

VIENNA (Reuters) - British Foreign Minister William Hague offered on Tuesday to help Nigeria secure the release of more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped by Islamist militant group Boko Haram last month.

"We are offering practical help," Hague told reporters as he arrived for a Council of Europe meeting in Vienna to discuss ways to defuse the situation in Ukraine, where the government is trying to quell an insurrection by pro-Russian activists.

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