Some gunmen have abducted a traditional ruler, Mikaila Bello, the Oniku of Iku in Ikare Akoko, Ondo State, Southwest Nigeria. POLITICS NIGERIA learned that the criminals also abducted four subjects travelling alongside the traditional ruler. Bello was kidnapped, on Thursday evening, en route to Iku town from Akure, Ondo State capital. This newspaper learned that the hoodlums ambushed the ruler and the other victims along Ago Panu on the Owo-Ikare road. The driver of the vehicle conveying the monarch was stabbed by the gunmen and has been rushed to the hospital. The kidnappers had yet to contact the victims’ families or demand a ransom. The attack and kidnap came barely weeks after an armed gang attacked a construction company in Owo, Governor Rotimi Akeredolu’s hometown. Earlier, a Catholic Church in the same town was attacked, leaving at least 40 dead and several injured. Kidnapping has become endemic in Nigeria. Bandits – heavily armed militants, many of them ethnic Fulanis – a...