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Wife stages fake kidnapping for €900

NIGERIA: A woman faked her own kidnapping to extort a €900 ransom from her husband, in a region of the west African nation plagued by abductions.

Police arrested the woman and her accomplice, a motorcycle taxi man who helped her stage it, after tracing the bank account given for her husband’s payment of 200,000 naira (€900) to the taxi man himself.