Gunmen have freed a Catholic priest, Reverend Father Kingsley Eze, and a driver, Uchenna Newman, following their abduction in Imo State, South East Nigeria. Reverend Father Eze, affectionately known as Father Ichie, serves as the priest at Saint Michael’s Catholic Church Parish within the community. The abduction occurred approximately seven days ago at Umuekebi, Osuoweerre, in the Isiala Mbano Local …

Gunmen on Friday kidnapped a Catholic priest, Rev. Fr. Mathias Opara along Ejemekwuru-Ogbaku Road, a highway linking Oguta and Mbaitoli Local Government Areas of Imo State. An eyewitness told our correspondent said that the priest was cornered while driving back to Owerri, the state capital, after the burial rites of the father of one of his colleagues at Izombo community, …