KIDNAPPED VANGUARD COLUMNIST REGAINS FREEDOM

Nigeria's Vanguard Newspaper's columnist, Dornu Kogbara, who was kidnapped by gunmen on August 30, 2015, in Port Harcourt has been released by her abductors. Rivers State Police Public Relations Officer, Ahmad Mohammad, confirmed Kogbara’s release on
Saturday morning.



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