Gunmen Kidnap Brother of Nigerian Soccer Star Joseph Yobo
Saturday, July 05, 2008

E-Mail Print Share:

PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria — Gunmen kidnapped the younger brother of Nigerian soccer star Joseph Yobo on Saturday, police said.

The unidentified men seized Norum Yobo at gunpoint before dawn as he was returning from a party, Rivers State police spokeswoman Rita Inoma-Abbey said. No group claimed has responsibility for the kidnapping and no ransom demand had been made, she said.

Joseph Yobo played for Everton soccer club in the British Premier League last season and is a regular fixture on Nigeria's national team, the Super Eagles.

Kidnappings are common in the West African country's oil-producing Niger river delta region where militants are agitating for more of the petroleum funds to be spent developing the impoverished region. Attacks on oil industry infrastructure in the past two years have slashed Nigeria's oil output by almost a quarter, helping push worldwide crude prices to historic highs.

Kidnappings have mostly ended peacefully after ransom payments, although deaths and injuries have occurred when security forces battle the kidnappers.

Nigeria is Africa's top oil producer and is routinely ranked as one of the most corrupt countries in the world.


Gunmen Kidnap Brother of Nigerian Soccer Star Joseph Yobo

================================================== ========
...I'm just giving examples O...when people initiate things...just to let U know not to call us "Barbarians" when we react........I hope Yobo's brother survives this with no harm......Amen...

Pa

__________________
....Perception Is Everything....

Pa

This is really sad! Nigerians keep giving themselves negative publicity..

__________________
..To the one who spoke and the galaxies leapt into existence....who can't be explained on a chalkboard but can be accessed through faith in the finished work of Jesus Christ.....whose word never returns to him void but accomplishes the purpose for which it is sent.....the one in whom I am complete.....the great I am...who was,who is and who is to come....
www.ifreke.blogspot.com

sad. why wont nigeria do something good globally for once? so, holding the whole worldn to high fuel price ransom now is the bst way to go? as if we all are not also feeling the bite? hisssssssssssssss

__________________

terrible!

This is so sad! High time the goverment looks into this kidnapping issues.