The practice has spread to other parts of the country, increasing insecurity in Africa’s most populous nation. Several Nigerian Schoolgirls Missing Since 2014 Abduction Found Alive. In recent years, armed gangs have been kidnapping people, including priests, for ransom from villages and on highways mainly in the northwest in recent years. “We implore for intense prayer for their quick and safe release,” Ihedoro said in a statement.

The kidnap gang stormed the Federal College of Forestry Mechanisation in Mando, Kaduna state, around 9:30pm (2030 GMT) on Thursday, shooting indiscriminately before taking. Nigeria's government has been accused of being too slow in its. Gunmen raided a college in northwestern Nigeria and kidnapped 39 students, government officials and parents said on Friday, in the latest mass abduction targeting a school. Zita Ihedoro, secretary-general of Sisters of Jesus, the Saviour Generalate, said the four nuns were abducted while travelling from Rivers state to Imo, both in the southeast, for a thanksgiving mass on Sunday. A video claiming to show some of the captured girls was released on 12 May. The abduction, which happened on Sunday, was announced on Monday by the convent they belonged to. Kidnapping for ransom has been on the rise in Nigeria. Unknown gunmen have abducted four Catholic nuns on a highway in Nigeria’s oil-producing Imo state, in the latest sign of widespread insecurity making road travel unsafe. A Nigerian signwriter who abducted a 14-year-old girl and defiled her has been sentenced to 15 years imprisonment by the Gender Based Violence Court at the Police Headquarters, Accra. Nigeria's Katsina school abduction: 'I was very afraid' when the kidnappers came. A Nigerian signwriter who abducted a 14-year-old girl and defiled her has been sentenced to 15 years imprisonment by the Gender Based Violence Court at the Police Headquarters, Accra. A Biafra separatist leader and UK national was arrested by Nigerian authorities in Kenya and taken to Nigeria in an act of extraordinary rendition, his.

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