UK man kidnapped

ABUJA: A British national was kidnapped in Nigeria this week shortly after arriving at Lagos airport. Gunmen attacked a fourwheel drive car at around 8.30pm on Tuesday after it left the airport’s international terminal, kidnapping a British man who was returning to a residential area of Lagos, two security sources said.

The Nigerian driver of the vehicle was shot but survived.

Kidnapping of expatriates by armed gangs seeking ransom has long been rife in Nigeria’s oil producing southeast but is rarer in