After a month, the President of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan will visit Chibok, the north-eastern village from where more than 200 schoolgirls were abducted, a senior government officials has said reports RTE news.

It will be Mr Jonathan’s first visit to Chibok village, epicentre of a growing international effort to rescue the girls, since the kidnappings.

Officials said he will travel on to a regional security summit in Paris at which Boko Haram will be discussed.

Mr Jonathan is under pressure to crush the rebels, who have killed thousands in their campaign for an Islamist state, and to free the girls, whose kidnapping has sparked global outrage.

The Nigerian government has come under criticism for its slow response to the abductions.