Gunmen kidnapped an American oil-industry worker as he travelled to work today in Nigeria’s southern oil region, police said.

A group of gunmen wearing security force uniforms invaded a compound in southern Nigeria and kidnapped four foreign oil workers without firing a shot, police said today.

Hostage-takers have released a toddler, its nanny and a driver kidnapped four days ago in Nigeria's oil-rich south, police said today.

NIGERIAN police have recovered 20 human skulls and more than 50 corpses in a raid on two black magic shrines in an “evil forest” in the south of the country, said Police Commissioner Felix Ogbaudu.