Gun men suspected to be Boko Haram terrorists have kidnapped 10 members of a university research team prospecting for oil in northeast Nigeria.
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC which contracted the work to the research team, confirmed the abduction on Wednesday.
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It would be recalled that NNPC has been surveying for oil for more than a year due to its belief that vast oil reserves abound in the Lake Chad Basin.
The region has been rendered almost desolate for more than eight years by a murderous Islamist insurgency, which has killed at least 20,000 people and forced some 2.7 million to flee their homes.
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