India, Dec. 5 -- Two weeks after one of Nigeria's worst school kidnappings, there has been no news of the more than 250 missing children. The identities of the kidnappers remain unknown; they are believed to be hiding in Nigeria's dense forests, and no ransom has been demanded as of now.

Meanwhile, desperate and frustrated parents are fuming over what they see as a slow response from authorities.

"They (the police) are just telling us to exercise patience, that they are trying to rescue the children," he said. "We are not happy with what is happening," Sunday Gbazali said in talks in news agency Reuters. He works as a farmer and his 14-year-old son was among those seized on November 21 in a remote northern village.

He described sleeple...