Nigeria, Oct. 8 -- The mother of one of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) members abducted along the Owerri-Onitsha Expressway says she paid N6 million to secure her son's release.

The prospective corps members were abducted last Thursday after gunmen attacked two 18-seater buses carrying passengers from Ibadan, Oyo State, and took some of the occupants into the forest.

Speaking in an interview with News Central Television on Wednesday, the woman said the kidnappers initially demanded N50 million for each victim before reducing the ransom.

"Initially, they asked us to pay N50 million per head. We asked whether the amount was for all of them, but they insisted that no, it was for each person. Later, we started begging them to tak...