The wife and two daughters of Kogi-based journalist Muhammed Bashir were among 10 members of the same family kidnapped by gunmen in Kaduna State on Thursday.

Bashir’s wife and daughters had arrived in Kaduna earlier on Thursday to spend the holiday with her family in a Kaduna suburb.

Bashir, a correspondent for the Nigeria Telegraph, informed colleagues in Lokoja, the capital of Kogi State, in a brief statement on Friday.

“My dear colleagues, please, I need your prayers. My two daughters and their mother, along with 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.

According to him, his family left Abuja that same Thursday for Kaduna but were kidnapped at their residence on Thursday night.

He said he had contacted the police and the Department of State Services and was informed that actions were being taken to rescue the victims and apprehend the gunmen.