Nigeria, Oct. 26 -- Terrorists, locally known as bandits, have kidnapped nine passengers and injured three other people, including a commercial driver, in separate attacks on a highway connecting Kogi and Kwara States.

According to a community blog post on Facebook, the attacks happened on Saturday between Egbe and Eruku on the Egbe-Ilorin highway

PREMIUM TIMES gathered that the nine people kidnapped were travelling from Isanlu Makutu in Yagba East Local Government Area of Kogi State to Ilorin, the capital of Kwara State.

Two of the kidnapped passengers are white-garment church leaders identified as Prophet Micheal and Iyabode Asubiojo.

In a separate attack, the terrorists waylaid a commercial vehicle returning from Ilorin, opening fi...