A Canadian woman kidnapped over a week ago in northern Nigeria has been released, police say.
Julie Mulligan, 45, was seized from a car by gunmen in the city of Kaduna on 16 April.
“She is in good health and in the custody of the security services,” a police spokesman told the BBC.
It is the first time a foreign woman has been kidnapped and held for ransom in Nigeria outside the restive oil-producing Niger Delta region.
Mrs Mulligan, a financial services consultant from Alberta, was travelling from a meeting with a friend when gunmen stopped their car and seized her.
Health fears
The kidnappers had said Mrs Mulligan was sick.
She had spoken to journalists on the phone since her kidnap and said she was afraid of getting malaria.
Local media reported her kidnappers had demanded 20m naira ($135,823; £92,000) to release her.
Police spokesman Emmanuel Ojukwu said he did not know if any ransom was paid.
“We will have more details tomorrow, all I know is that she is healthy and in Kaduna in the custody of the security services,” he said.
Kidnappings for ransom are common in the southern Niger Delta region, where militants and street gangs target wealthy Nigerians and foreign oil workers.
But this is the first time a foreigner has been kidnapped in the north of the country.