Nasarawa journalist’s wife’s kidnappers want N5m ransom

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By David Odama

Suleiman Abubakar, the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, Correspondents’ chapel Chairman, Nasarawa State, has said the gunmen, who attacked him and abducted his wife, Yahanasu, demanded N5 million for her release.

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Suleiman Abubakar disclosed, yesterday, in Lafia that the abductors, had Wednesday evening, attacked him, his wife and three other women on Gudi-Garaku Road in Akwanga Local Government Area of the state on their way to Lafia, the state capital.

He said he narrowly escaped from the bus, while the abductors went away with his wife and the other victims.

According to Abubakar, the assailants shot at the union’s bus conveying himself and the victims from Keffi, where his wife had gone to register at the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) orientation camp, at about 7 p.m.

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