JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) Suspected Fulani herdsmen have demanded 30 million naira (US$73,600) for the release of a Pentecostal church pastor they kidnapped in southwestern Nigeria on Monday night (May 10), according to a local report.
Pastor Otamayomi Ogedengbe of Deeper Life Bible Church was taken away at gunpoint from a Bible study at his church site in Akure, Ondo state, shortly after 8:30 p.m., his wife said.
“The armed men shot their way into the church’s building where the program was being held and took him away with a gun pointed at his head,” she told Morning Star News by phone.