A female reporter with Nigeria Television Authority, NTA, Network Centre in Port Harcourt , Mrs Chidiebele Julian Nweke Onyia, has been abducted by yet to be identified persons.
Available details of how she was kidnapped are vague at the time of filing this report.
But according to a post by Mrs Osinachi Samuel, her colleague, the journalist who works as Production Editor was kidnapped around Oil Mill axis of Port Harcourt on Tuesday evening.
Other reports, even so, indicated that she was kidnapped along Railway crossing in Woji Community of Obio-Akpor local government area of the State at about 8 pm on Tuesday
She was presumably on her way home after the NTA 7 pm newscast when she was kidnapped, it was further learnt.
Anita Josephine Ogonna, a staff of Silverbird Radio and Television in Port Harcourt and one of Chidiebele’s friends who also reported the kidnapping incident on her blog told our correspondent on phone that she is sad about the present-day turn on journalists by kidnappers.
Mrs Onyia who is married and has children is a graduate of Enugu State University of Science and Technology, Enugu.
The Rivers Police Command has not reacted to the kidnap as at the time of filing in this report.
