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Africa-Press – Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Wife and two daughters of a Kogi-based journalist, Muhammed Bashir, have been kidnapped by yet-to-be-identified gunmen in Kaduna, Kaduna State.<\/p>\n

They were kidnapped along with 10 members of the same family on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Bashir\u2019s wife and the two daughters were said to have traveled to Kaduna early Thursday to spend the holiday with her family in a Kaduna suburb.<\/p>\n

Bashir, a correspondent of the Nigeria Telegraph newspaper, confirmed the abduction to newsmen in Lokoja, Kogi State capital, on Friday evening in a brief statement.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy dear colleagues, please, I need your prayers. My two daughters and their mother, including eight others, were kidnapped by unknown gunmen in Kaduna, where they went for a holiday.<\/p>\n

\u201cPlease pray for me,\u201d he wrote in the Kogi State Correspondents\u2019 Chapel of the Nigeria Union of Journalists WhatsApp platform.<\/p>\n

According to him, his family left Abuja on the same Thursday for Kaduna but got kidnapped at their residence on Thursday night.<\/p>\n

He said that he had contacted the police and the Department of State Services (DSS) and had been informed that actions were being taken to rescue the victims and capture the gunmen.<\/p>\n

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