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The Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike has declared that the State Government will amend the State Anti-kidnapping Law to prescribe death sentence for criminals involved in cultism, robbery and kidnapping. In a state broadcast on Monday on the killing of Johnson Igwedibia alias Don Wanny, Governor Wike stated that the Rivers State Government has zero tolerance for crime and ...

“Two Turkish construction workers were abducted from their hotel rooms in Nigeria’s oil-rich Akwa Ibom state on Sunday, according to a police spokesman Tuesday. Police officer Chukwu Okechukwu told the country’s official news agency, NAN, the workers were abducted from Eket, an oil-rich town that is dozens of kilometers (miles) away from the Akwa Ibom capital city, Uyo. “The state ...