Nigeria:Gunmen abduct PTI Chief Security Officer in Delta

Gunmen on Sunday abducted the Chief Security Officer of the Petroleum Training Institute, Effurun, in Uvwie Local Government Area of Delta State, Mr John Odogun.
Sources told our correspondent that he was kidnapped on his way to church on Sunday morning around the NNPC House Complex road in the volatile Ekpan area, near Warri.
The victim was alone when he was waylaid by the gunmen numbering five at about 6:45am on his way to Rainbow Christian Assembly.

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