Kidnapping — Ojuwo-Ajengo/Mamerebo and Ojodu/Ojuwo-Olijo along Itobe-Achigili-Anyigba highway, Ofu, Kogi

Gunmen barricaded the Itobe-Achigili-Anyigba highway in Ofu LGA, Kogi State, in two attacks about two hours apart on Sunday, intercepting a Peace Mass Transit Hummer bus at around 4pm and a Sharon bus and a Sienna at around 6pm, and marching all occupants into surrounding bush. The number of abducted passengers was not established; security forces and local vigilantes were deployed to search for the victims.

Number abducted unspecified (article says it may only be known from passenger manifests), so reported_abducted left null. Sourcing is entirely unnamed local sources; Kogi police spokesperson had not yet confirmed at time of publication. Date inferred as Sunday 9 August 2026 from publication date of 10 August 2026. Abducted left blank rather than set to 13: no source carries 13, and the original reporting establishes no figure. The later rescue reports attached here do not agree with each other — Vanguard and Punch put the number freed at 15, while Premium Times, TheCable and two further Punch pieces put it at 16 — and it is not established that those rescue operations correspond to this pair of ambushes rather than to separate Ofu-corridor incidents. Blank means not established, not zero. Killed held at 1 and injured at 1, each carried consistently by multiple Tier 1 outlets; injured claims range 1 to 2, so the lower well-supported figure is used. Case status left unknown because the rescue reporting cannot be tied to this entry with confidence.

Ojuwo-Ajengo/Mamerebo and Ojodu/Ojuwo-Olijo along Itobe-Achigili-Anyigba highway, Ofu, Kogi — exact coordinates not recorded; marker placed at the centre of the state.