Reports have it that gunmen killed a clergyman, Apostle Ranti Ige -Daniel, of the Royal Assembly Sanctuary, Lagos at Isanlu community in Yagba East Local Government Area of Kogi State.<\/p>\n
The incident occurred on Thursday ,when he attended a revival crusade. He was abducted with three others between Idofin and Makutu road, a few kilometres to Isanlu, the headquarters of the local government.<\/p>\n
Shortly after the revival crusade at Isanlu, he was killed on his way for a burial ceremony. A source revealed that they shot the clergyman when he ran into their barricade around 8:30pm.<\/p>\n
After shooting the man, the gunmen abducted the other three people which includes a woman that is believed to be his fiancee.<\/p>\n
Rev. Dr. Francis Iselowo, who is close to the family of deceased, stated that Apostle Ige-Daniel and the other three were going for a burial ceremony at Isanlu when the gunmen attacked them.<\/p>\n
He said, \u201cYour life was snatched in a dastardly manner with three other people still in the captivity of the terrorists. I heard that the kidnappers were asking for N10 million per person.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Reports have it that gunmen killed a clergyman, Apostle Ranti Ige -Daniel, of the Royal Assembly Sanctuary, Lagos at Isanlu community in Yagba East Local Government Area of Kogi State. The incident occurred on Thursday ,when he attended a revival crusade. He was abducted with three others between Idofin and Makutu road, a few kilometres […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17078,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[1803,723,279],"class_list":{"0":"post-17074","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local","8":"tag-apostle-ranti-ige-daniel","9":"tag-gunmen","10":"tag-kogi-state"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17074"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17079,"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17074\/revisions\/17079"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}