Gunmen abduct professor, journalist in Calabar
Two persons have been abducted by gunmen in Calabar over the weekend, reports the News Agency of Nigeria .
Prof. Ugwu was picked up by gunmen at his residence at second transformer in Atimbo while watering flowers in his compound after his abductors shot severally into the air to scare residents. “They took him through the water. It is like they had been monitoring him for quite a while because they came in swiftly like they knew the area,” she said.Meanwhile, a colleague of Archibong in the Cross River State Newspaper Corporation, said that he was picked up on his way home from an outing in Etta Agbor Layout, Calabar Municipality on Saturday evening.
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