{"id":46154,"date":"2021-01-17T21:38:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-17T20:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/?p=46154"},"modified":"2021-01-17T21:38:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-17T20:38:00","slug":"catholic-priest-kidnapped-killed-in-niger-whereabout-of-younger-unknown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/catholic-priest-kidnapped-killed-in-niger-whereabout-of-younger-unknown\/","title":{"rendered":"Catholic Priest Kidnapped, Killed In Niger; Whereabout Of Younger Unknown"},"content":{"rendered":"

Olabode Adaramola<\/p>\n

A\u00a0 Catholic Priest of the Diocese of Minna, Niger State\u00a0 Rev.Father John Gbakaan Yaji has been abducted\u00a0 and murdered in cold blood\u00a0 by Gunmen, suspected to\u00a0 be armed bandits\u00a0 in the State.<\/p>\n

The incidence was said to have\u00a0 happened\u00a0 on Friday night in Tufa village along Lambata-Lapai road axis of the state.<\/p>\n

The late clergyman\u00a0 was said to be returning from Lambata, I’m Gurara local government area of the state\u00a0 where he had attended a religious meeting in conjunction\u00a0 with his colleaques but was said to have been kidnapped and killed on his way back to his station.<\/p>

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National Wires reliably gathered that the deceased John Yaji was kidnapped along with\u00a0 his younger brother but as at the time of filing this report on Sunday, the whereabout of the said you get brother to the slain cleric was yet uknown.<\/p>\n

Concerted efforts by\u00a0 our reporter\u00a0 to speak with the Spokesman\u00a0 of the Niger State Police Command, ASP Wasiu Abiodun for confirmation of the incident was futile,\u00a0 but a Clergyman\u00a0 of the Catholic Diocese Minna who craved for anonymity in a brief chat with our reporter on Sunday, in Minna\u00a0 confirmed\u00a0 the incident .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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