A Kidnapping Negotiator Gets His Biggest Test: Saving His Own Wife

He’s known as 'the negotiator,' risking arrest and death to bring hostages home. This time the call was different: The kidnappers had his wife.

KADUNA, Nigeria—Some of the kidnappers were barely teenagers, shooting rifles into the air as they marched hundreds of hostages through a thorn forest to find cellphone service.

They would soon relay a message to the man known as “the negotiator”—a corn farmer and part-time newspaper reporter who has become an unlikely go-between for families of the abducted and the kidnappers demanding payment.

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