Gunmen kidnapped four Catholic nuns on an expressway in Nigeria's oil-producing Imo state in the Southeastern Nigeria.

 A nearby religious community said on Monday, in the most recent indication of boundless weakness making street travel perilous.


Equipped sects have been kidnapping individuals, including clerics, for ransom from towns and on highways  in the northwest and the trend has spread to different parts of the nation, expanding insecurities in Africa's most populous


country.


Zita Ihedoro, secretary general of Sisters of Jesus, the Savior Generalate, said the four were kidnapped while making a trip from Rivers state to Imo for a thanksgiving mass on Sunday.


"We beg for extreme supplication for their speedy and safe delivery," Ihedoro said in an explanation.


In the north-west, Nigeria's military has begun an air hostile to dispense with the equipped gatherings liable for hijacking residents from towns and towns in the locale.