An American Missionary Has Been Kidnapped In Nigeria's Kogi State

American Citizen Kidnapped In Kogi State of Nigeria

February 24, 2015
By Tom Okure, Ph.D

An American citizen (possibly a missionary on a mission) has been kidnapped in Kogi state of Nigeria. The volatile situation in the country caused by the extreme militant group called Boko Haram (Meaning…"Western education is forbidden") in the northern part of Nigeria appears to be extending its reach beyond the north.  The kidnappers are alleged to be demanding a large ransom for the kidnapped American. 

Kogi state is located in the central part of Nigeria. The state is commonly referred to as the Confluence State, because of the convergence of Nigeria’s two major rivers, “River Niger and River Benue” at the state’s capital Lokoja, which was Nigeria’s first administrative capital.

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Did You Know That … it was in Lokoja, Nigeria’s Kogi State that the name Nigeria, was first concocted by one Flora Shaw, who was the fiancée of Baron Lord Lugard, the then British colonial administrator in Nigeria, while she was staring at the magnificent confluence of River Niger and River Benue  that  stretched before her eyes in the later part of the  19th century....Now You Know !!