Nigeria: Two Weeks Later, Kidnapped Appeal Court Judge Remains in Captivity

11 November 2019

Chioma Nwosu, a Nigerian judge at the Benin Division of the Court of Appeal, has not regained freedom two weeks after she was kidnapped.

The top judge was attacked by gunmen along Benin-Agbor Highway on her way to an assignment on October 29. Her police orderly was fatally shot during the incident.

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