A military spokesman says kidnappers have released the wife of a former Nigerian energy minister.
Lt. Col. Sagir Musa said Gladys Daukoru was returned safely to a hotel on Friday. Unidentified gunmen abducted the woman from a bar late Tuesday in the city of Port Harcourt.
Edmund Daukoru served under former President Olusegun Obasanjo and his portfolio included oil-industry related business. He was also a former head of OPEC, of which Nigeria is a member.
Hundreds of expatriate and Nigerian hostages have been taken during three years of rising violence across the southern Niger Delta region that is the seat of Africa’s biggest oil industry. Victims are normally released after a ransom is paid.