Everton player’s brother abducted in Nigeria

THE brother of Everton football player Joseph Yobo was kidnapped on Saturday by armed men in Port Harcourt, the capital of Nigeria’s southern oil-producing region, police said yesterday.

Norum Yobo, the younger brother of the English Premier League player, was kidnapped as he returned to a hotel after a night out with friends.

Yobo was forced out of the car and taken by his abductors to an unknown location.