The Director of News of the Rivers State Broadcasting Corporation, Priestba Anthony-Nwokocha, has been kidnapped by yet-to-be-identified gunmen between Slaughter and the YKC area of Port Harcourt, the state capital.
The incident was confirmed by the Director of Administration of RSBC, Pastor Ebi Ogolo, who said the incident happened on Friday evening.
Ogolo, who said the director was kidnapped on her way home from work, pleaded with security agencies to urgently intervene and ensure her quick and safe release.
In the meantime; the Rivers State Police Command has been notified of the abduction, but an official statement from them is yet to get to journalists.
In another development, items worth millions of naira including bags of maize and locally processed rice have allegedly been stolen by youths in Jalingo, Taraba State.
The youths, reportedly in large numbers, midnight, Friday, invaded a warehouse, not far from the 6 Army Brigade and looted it.
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A source claimed the warehouse belongs to Dr Jugulde, a former member of the state House of Assembly and immediate past chairman of Sardauna Local Government Area of the state.
The source narrated that when the youths started gathering at the warehouse at about 11.50pm, the Nigerian Army and police were alerted, saying that before the arrival of the security agents, the youths had already broken into the warehouse and started looting.
He explained, “The security agents fired shots into the air to disperse the looters when they arrived at the scene.”
Hundreds of bags of maize and locally processed rice as well as agricultural inputs including fertiliser and pesticide, according to the source were carted away from the warehouse.
It was learnt two persons died in the process.
He further stated that the same warehouse was looted during the EndSARS protest in 2020 with items worth millions of naira stolen.
SP Usman Abdullahi, the Police Public Relations Officer of the Taraba State Command, when contacted stated that he was trying to get details of the incident.