Unidentified gunmen on Monday kidnapped a Lebanese engineer in southern Nigeria’s oil hub of Port Harcourt, police said.
The man was abducted in late morning, Rivers state police spokeswoman Rita Abbey told AFP, adding that police were investigating the incident.
No group has claimed responsibility for the abduction.
In the past three years, Nigeria has seen a spate of kidnappings both of local and foreign oil workers and of relatives of prominent politicians, often by criminal gangs seeking a ransom, but sometimes also for political ends.
Since the beginning of 2006, militant attacks have cut Nigeria’s oil output by more than one quarter. Production currently stands at between 1.8 and two million barrels a day against 2.6 million barrels a day two years ago.