PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria — Police say unidentified attackers have kidnapped the wife of Nigeria's former energy minister in the restive southern oil region.
Police spokeswoman Rita Abbey says that Gladys Daukoru was taken last evening from a bar in the city of Port Harcourt. Edmund Daukoru served under former president Olusegun Obasanjo as a top cabinet officer whose 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 region that is the seat of Africa's biggest oil industry.
Victims are normally released after a ransom is paid
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