Abiodun Dada, a Nigerian cobbler, alongside his wife Rumoke, have recently been interviewed by Punch News. These two became a couple against all odds as Abiodun was disfigured from acid poured on him by his cousin many years ago with the intention to kill him. During this interview, his wife, Rumoke stated that her father disowned her and people in the community mocked for marrying Abiodun because he was disfigured. According to her, when she first met her husband based on work she was afraid of him. She got his number from his shop door and called him to make some shoes. However, he started calling her often which she initially ignored, but with time they began a mutual relationship through which they fell in love with each other. Rumoke made it clear that her father was against their relationship, but her mother was accomodating. Her father disowned her after she decided to marry Abiodun and even people in the community started mocking her. She said, “My father initially disowne...
Eighteen persons have died and forty others were injured in a fatal motor accident in Illela Local Government Area of Sokoto State. The accident involved a truck carrying passengers and a herd of cattle. The spokesman of the Kebbi State Police Command Nafiu Abubakar, who confirmed the development late Monday, said it occurred at the Malisa junction of Gwandu Local Government Area of the North-West state. He explained that the Sunday accident involved a yet-to-be-identified driver of a truck with Reg. No. SRP 442 XA, Niger State, conveying passengers and cows from the Illela council area to Lagos. The truck then lost control at Malisa Junction and fell, resulting in the accident that also caused the death of sixteen cows. He added that the state police commissioner Ahmed Kontagora has visited the scene of the accident and witnessed the evacuation of victims to Gwandu General Hospital where eighteen of the victims were confirmed dead by the medical director of the hospital. In...
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