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Nigeria: Oil corporation confirms Boko Haram kidnapping
[AA.TR] Nigeria’s state-owned oil corporation on Thursday confirmed the abduction of several of its workers in the restive northeast by Boko Haram... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... , saying their whereabouts remain unknown. The confirmation comes two days after Boko Haram fighters ambushed the workers in the Gubio area, reportedly killing several of them, including at least nine soldiers who the army says were on a rescue mission. Local news media are reporting the killing of some 48 persons in the ambush, including soldiers, member of a local vigilante group, and the oil workers, whose bodies they say were brought to a government hospital in Maiduguri, Borno’s capital. There was no official confirmation of the corpse count outside the nine the army confirmed late Wednesday. "We're gladdened by reports of the rescue of some of the victims. We however await official confirmation from military authorities," Petroleum Minister and Nigerian National Petroleum Corp. (NNPC) head Ibe Kachikwu told a news briefing on Thursday in the capital Abuja. Posted by: Fred 2017-07-28 |
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