The wife and two daughters of Muhammed Bashir, a Kogi-based writer, were among 10 members of the same family kidnapped by gunmen in Kaduna State on Thursday.
Bashir’s wife and two girls came to Kaduna earlier on Thursday to spend the holiday with her family in a Kaduna suburb.
Bashir, a correspondent for the Nigeria Telegraph, told colleagues in Lokoja, Kogi State’s capital, on Friday in a brief statement.
“My dear colleagues, please, I need your prayers. My two daughters and their mother, including eight others, were kidnapped yesterday by unknown gunmen in Kaduna, where they went for a holiday.
“Please pray for me,” he wrote in the Kogi Correspondents’ Chapel WhatsApp platform.
He said that he had contacted the police and the Department of State Services and had been informed that actions were being taken to rescue the victims and capture the gunmen.
