Child’s Play II

Egged on by her pastor, Olusegun Mayaki of the Rock of Ages Gospel Church in Ondo, Nigeria, 30-year-old Tawa Ahmed told fellow parishioners how she had been pregnant for five years. Then, she said, she finally gave birth to a baby: a healthy, 1 kilogram ...tortoise. But when a reporter asked the woman just how it she came to give birth to the reptile she was holding in the church service, Rev. Mayaki refused to let her speak, saying she was “tired.” Other churchgoers were not as skeptical, and would say only that a name had not yet been chosen for the ...uh... miracle baby. (AFP) ...Rev. Mayaki talked her into a tortoise, saying that tests proved their gestation period is shorter than the hare.