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https://static.africa-press.net/upload/sites/3/2019/01/2300a121-gunmen.jpg800470FOR some time now, highway brigandage has changed from the snatching of goods and money from travellers to the abduction or kidnap (for ransom) of the travellers themselves. Kidnapping which is an old crime that was only heard of in advanced foreign countries came into Nigeria about 20 years ago when the agitations by militant […]