It is the first reported visited by the president to the scene of an attack in the northeastern region that has suffered for five years the increasingly deadly assaults by Nigeria's homegrown Boko Haram terrorist network.
The vehicle Doctor Sydney Paul was travelling in near the Nigerian captial of Abuja on Sunday was peppered with machine gun bullets, killing the driver.
US officials slammed Nigeria's "slow" response to the kidnapping of more than 200 schoolgirls by Islamic militants and renewed criticism on Thursday of the military's poor human rights record.
Residents of three villages in northeastern Nigeria took security into their own hands this week, repelling attacks by Boko Haram insurgents and killing more than 200 of them, residents and officials said.
Legislators are calling in Nigeria's security chiefs to discuss extending the year-old military state of emergency to fight an Islamic uprising, and the government says a mastermind of a bomb that killed nearly 100 people has been arrested in neighboring Sudan.
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