Gunmen kidnapped two children belonging to a prominent former official in Nigeria’s oil city Port Harcourt on Tuesday, a military spokesman said.
The children of former local government chairman Ephraim Nwuze — five-year-old Alwell and his eight-year-old sister Wisdom — were snatched from their car on their way to school, Major Musa Sagir told AFP.
The past few months have seen a wave of kidnappings of oil workers and relations of prominent Nigerians in the restive Niger Delta. Most of them have been released, usually after payment of a ransom.
Two children of a local businessmen were seized last week and released at the weekend.