Unknown gunmen have kidnapped a female journalist with the Nigerian Television Authority in Port Harcourt, Rivers State.
Close sources said the victim, CHIDIEBERE ONYIA, who is also a nursing mother, was abducted at gunpoint on Tuesday night.
The abduction happened at about 8PM, along the railway line at Woji, in the Obio-Akpor Local Government Area of the Rivers State capital.
The Rivers State council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, has called on the Police to take immediate action to secure the release of its kidnapped member.
In a statement, the State Chairman of the NUJ, STANLEY JOB, and the State Secretary of the union, IKE WIGODO, asked the security agencies to prevent further attacks on journalists.
They recalled that the abduction of CHIDIEBERE ONYIA comes less than a month after unknown gunmen opened fire on the Business Manager of Silverbird Group in Port Harcourt, SEGUN OWOLABI.
Meanwhile, the spokesman of the Rivers State Police Command, NNAMDI OMONI, said they have recovered the vehicle belonging to the kidnapped journalist.