Daily Digest Online

A young widow from Plateau State, whose husband was brutally murdered by bandits, has issued a desperate cry for help after receiving repeated death threats demanding she marry the leader of the very group that killed her spouse. The woman, identified only as Nanbam, told the international non-governmental organization Equipping The Persecuted that the nightmare began the same day her husband was slain. Bandits who had invaded their village in Mushere, Bokkos Local Government Area, in August used his phone to call her. "They used his number to call me to say that their leader wants to marry me," Nanbam recounted, her voice trembling. "I was shocked... I thought they were joking and I told them that over my dead body will I marry someone who killed my husband and the father of my children". Her refusal has come at a terrifying price. Since that day, she says she receives calls "almost every day" from the assailants, who t...