Suspected Boko Haram insurgents have kidnapped 10 members of a geological research team in northeastern Nigeria.
A spokesman for the Nigerian National Petroleum Company, which contracted the workers, said the contractors were kidnapped near Jibi village in Borno state on Tuesday afternoon.
"About 10 members of the University of Maiduguri geology and surveying department were abducted by suspected Boko Haram members," Ughamadu said, noting the group included academic staff, drivers and other workers.
The state oil company has been surveying for more than a year for what it says could be vast oil reserves in the Lake Chad Basin, a region racked by Boko Haram's eight-year insurgency.
