Woman calls off engagement with abroad-based fiancé over his family's interference
A debate has ensued on Twitter and even on the radio after a woman called off her engagement because her fiancé's family were making certain demands.
The story was shared to Twitter by someone claiming to know the bride.
She explained that the fiancé, who lives abroad, was planning to return to Nigeria for them to have their introduction ceremony.
Ahead of his return, the fiancé's sister, who is a medical doctor, asked her brother's wife-to-be to come to her hospital and run some tests so they can be sure she's clean.
The tests all came back clean.
Yet, the family was still not satisfied and the bride-to-be was told...
Bandits are now reportedly demanding for cooked food as ransom following some measures instituted by state governments to fight insecuirty in their states.
A youth leader in one of the villages in Birnin Gwari local government area of Kaduna state, Babangida Yaro, told Daily Trust that since the ban on weekly markets as part of measures to tackle insecurity, bandits operating along Damari, Kutemashi and Kuyello villages only asked for cooked food each time they abduct people.
Revealing that the ban on sale of fuel in filling stations located in rural communities had also helped to restrict movement, the youth leader further disclosed that when the bandits abduct two or three persons in farms, one is allowed to go and get...
