{"id":151208,"date":"2025-02-18T09:01:56","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T08:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/gunmen-kill-rccg-pastors-son-abduct-wife-in-nasarawa"},"modified":"2025-02-20T17:10:51","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T16:10:51","slug":"gunmen-kill-rccg-pastors-son-abduct-wife-in-nasarawa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/gunmen-kill-rccg-pastors-son-abduct-wife-in-nasarawa","title":{"rendered":"Gunmen kill RCCG pastor\u2019s son, abduct wife in Nasarawa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Gunmen suspected to be kidnappers have killed the son of a minister in the Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, and abducted his wife in Mararaba, a Nasarawa State community neighboring Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>It was gathered that the minister, Austin Ifeji, was in the early hours of Monday last week attacked by armed bandits in his home at Mararaba, near Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>Ifeji, after being inflicted with machete cuts by the hoodlums, was said to have narrowly escaped, prompting the bandits to abduct his wife.<\/p>\n<p>The kidnappers also shot his son, who attempted to defend his mother, and inflicted more machete cuts on him in the presence of his other siblings.<\/p>\n<p>According to Daily Trust, a neighbor, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said after killing the son, they then took the wife away and made a demand of N30 million ransom.<\/p>\n<p>At the time of filing this report, information about her release was still sketchy.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Nasarawa State Police Public Relations Officer, SP Rahman Nansel, said the command was not aware of the incident.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Gunmen suspected to be kidnappers have killed the son of a minister in the Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, and abducted his wife in Mararaba, a Nasarawa State community neighboring Abuja. It was gathered that the minister, Austin Ifeji, was in the early hours of Monday last week attacked by armed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":151207,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,30],"tags":[190,1164,254,971],"class_list":["post-151208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","tag-gunmen","tag-nasarawa","tag-nigeria","tag-rccg"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Gunmen kill RCCG pastor\u2019s son, abduct wife in Nasarawa - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Gunmen suspected to be kidnappers have killed the son of a minister in the Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, and a ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/gunmen-kill-rccg-pastors-son-abduct-wife-in-nasarawa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Gunmen kill RCCG pastor\u2019s son, abduct wife in Nasarawa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Gunmen suspected to be kidnappers have killed the son of a minister in the Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, and a ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/gunmen-kill-rccg-pastors-son-abduct-wife-in-nasarawa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-02-18T08:01:56+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-02-20T16:10:51+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/02\/sm_1739856980.485072.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"718\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/gunmen-kill-rccg-pastors-son-abduct-wife-in-nasarawa#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/gunmen-kill-rccg-pastors-son-abduct-wife-in-nasarawa\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Gunmen kill RCCG pastor\u2019s son, abduct wife in Nasarawa\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-02-18T08:01:56+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-02-20T16:10:51+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/gunmen-kill-rccg-pastors-son-abduct-wife-in-nasarawa\"},\"wordCount\":197,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/gunmen-kill-rccg-pastors-son-abduct-wife-in-nasarawa#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/02\/sm_1739856980.485072.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Gunmen\",\"Nasarawa\",\"Nigeria\",\"RCCG\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Community\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/gunmen-kill-rccg-pastors-son-abduct-wife-in-nasarawa#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/gunmen-kill-rccg-pastors-son-abduct-wife-in-nasarawa\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/gunmen-kill-rccg-pastors-son-abduct-wife-in-nasarawa\",\"name\":\"Gunmen kill RCCG pastor\u2019s son, abduct wife in Nasarawa - 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