{"id":90719,"date":"2022-01-14T22:21:51","date_gmt":"2022-01-14T21:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=90719"},"modified":"2022-01-14T22:21:51","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T21:21:51","slug":"breaking-gunmen-launch-attack-on-nasarawa-varsity-kidnap-four-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/breaking-gunmen-launch-attack-on-nasarawa-varsity-kidnap-four-students\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Gunmen Launch Attack On Nasarawa Varsity, Kidnap Four Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m#msg-f:1721966050292143610\" class=\"mail-message expanded\">\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-header spacer\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0No fewer than four students of the Federal University, Lafia, Nasarawa State, have reportedly been kidnapped by heavily armed men who stormed the university premises and whisked them away to an unknown destination.<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal mail-show-images \" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div class=\"clear\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\nThe institution\u2019s Public Relations Officer, Abubakar Ibrahim, confirmed the incident in a statement made available to our correspondent in Lafia on Friday.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\nHe explained that the gunmen stormed the university premises which is located in Mararaba community at about 11:30 pm on Thursday and kidnapped the students but said efforts were being made to secure their release.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n\u201cThe Management of the Federal University of Lafia regret to announce that four students of the university were kidnapped by unknown gunmen on Thursday, January 13, 2022, at around 11:30 p.m.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n\u201cThe Vice-Chancellor of the university, Prof. Shehu Abdul Rahman, on behalf of the management of the institution, expressed his profound outrage at the unfortunate development and condemned it in strong terms and demand\u00a0 the immediate release of those kidnapped.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n\u201cThe vice-chancellor, who has since visited the area where the students were kidnapped, visited the Nasarawa Police Command where he formally notified the Commissioner of Police about the abduction of the students,\u201d the statement read in part.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The statement added that the VC had contacted other security operatives, appealing to them to work tirelessly for the safe and quick return of the students while urging students in the area to pay more attention to security-related matters at all times.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\nEfforts made to reach the Police Public Relations Officer, ASP Ramhan Nansel, as of the time of filing this report proved abortive as he was not responding to phone calls.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-footer spacer collapsible\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0No fewer than four students of the Federal University, Lafia, Nasarawa State, have reportedly been kidnapped by heavily armed men who stormed the university premises and whisked them away to&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":90705,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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