Nigeria, Sept. 22 -- Four workers of the Oyo State College of Agriculture and Technology, Igbo Ora, who were kidnapped on Thursday have been freed. A fifth person who was also kidnapped alongside the officials was also released.

The four lecturers of the institution who were kidnapped include the Chairman of the Academic Staff of Polytechnics (ASUP), Opadijo Oluyide; Secretary of the union, Gbenga Alayande; two other lecturers of the institution and the wife of one of the victims.

PREMIUM TIMES reported how the victims were kidnapped while coming from a meeting held in Saki on Thursday.

They were kidnapped along Iseyin-Igbo Ora Road, on their way back from a meeting of the Joint Action Committee (JAC) of unions in all the six Oyo State...