A 14-year-old Nigerian girl who was arrested with explosives strapped to her body told journalists Wednesday that her parents volunteered her to take part in a suicide attack.
The girl, who was identified as Zahra’u Babangida, was arrested in Kano on December 10 following a double suicide bombing in a market that killed 10 people.
She was presented to journalists by police and instructed to recount how Islamist militants allegedly forced her to take part in the attack.
Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has expressed shock at the contents of former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s autobiography, titled My Watch.
The literary icon slammed the ex-President calling him an expert in telling lies.
In the three-volume book, Obasanjo described Soyinka as a misfit.
He wrote, “For Wole (Soyinka), no one can be good, nor can anything be spot-on politically except that which emanates from him or is ordained by him. His friends and loved ones will always be right and correct no matter what they do or fail to do.”
“He is surely a better wine connoisseur and a more successful “aparo” (guinea fowl) hunter than a political critic.”
The General Overseer of Deeper Life Bible Church, Williams Kumuyi, has directed all members to get their voter cards to vote for a credible government in 2015 elections.
It is going to be a very gloomy Christmas for Nigerians, according to the folks at All Progressives Congress.
The opposition party listed a number of challenges being faced by Nigerians, as reasons why the citizenry will have a not-so-fun Christmas celebration.
Below are the reasons, as listed in a statement issued in Abuja on Wednesday by the party’s National Publicity Secretary, Lai Mohammed.
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