{"id":62910,"date":"2017-01-31T08:57:07","date_gmt":"2017-01-31T15:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=62910"},"modified":"2017-01-31T08:57:07","modified_gmt":"2017-01-31T15:57:07","slug":"muslim-preacher-with-130-wives-dies-aged-93-in-nigeria-leaving-behind-his-203-children-and-some-of-his-partners-are-still-pregnant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/01\/31\/muslim-preacher-with-130-wives-dies-aged-93-in-nigeria-leaving-behind-his-203-children-and-some-of-his-partners-are-still-pregnant\/","title":{"rendered":"Muslim preacher with 130 WIVES dies aged 93 in Nigeria&#8230; leaving behind his 203 CHILDREN (and some of his partners are still pregnant)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>By <a class=\"author\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/home\/search.html?s=&amp;authornamef=Fionn+Hargreaves+For+Mailonline\" rel=\"nofollow\">FIONN HARGREAVES FOR MAILONLINE<\/a>\u00a0Courtesy Daily Mail\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<ul class=\"mol-bullets-with-font\">\n<li class=\"\"><strong>Mohammed Bello Abubakar, from Central Niger State, died on Saturday<\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"\"><strong>It is unknown what illness Mr Abubakar died from<\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"\"><strong>He faced criticism from other clerics who said he could only have four wives<\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"\"><strong>His personal assistant said he had a premonition of death before he passed\u00a0<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"author-section byline-plain\">\n<div id=\"articleIconLinksContainer\"><\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">A Muslim cleric, 93, who wed 130 wives died on Saturday, leaving behind more than 200 children.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Mohammed Bello Abubakar died from an unknown illness in Niger State and large crowds turned out for his funeral on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">It is believed that some of his wives are pregnant.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-4171764\/Muslim-preacher-130-WIVES-93-leaving-203-kids.html#ixzz4XM58LXXW\">http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-4171764\/Muslim-preacher-130-WIVES-93-leaving-203-kids.html#ixzz4XM58LXXW<\/a><br \/>\nFollow us: <a href=\"http:\/\/ec.tynt.com\/b\/rw?id=bBOTTqvd0r3Pooab7jrHcU&amp;u=MailOnline\" target=\"_blank\">@MailOnline on Twitter<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/ec.tynt.com\/b\/rf?id=bBOTTqvd0r3Pooab7jrHcU&amp;u=DailyMail\" target=\"_blank\">DailyMail on Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/youtu.be\/blFX3GRXLrQ<\/p>\n<table class=\"storycontent\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\">\n<div class=\"mxb\">\n<h1>Nigerian advises against 86 wives<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"storybody\">\n<div class=\"mvb\">\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"466\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"bottom\">\n<div class=\"mvb\"><span class=\"byl\">By Andrew Walker <\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"byd\">BBC News, Bida, Nigeria<\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/africa\/7547148.stm\">http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/africa\/7547148.stm<\/a><\/div>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"226\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"right\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.bbc.co.uk\/media\/images\/44901000\/jpg\/_44901080_wives_baba_226.jpg\" alt=\"Baba Mohammed Bello Abubakar\" width=\"226\" height=\"170\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" vspace=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"cap\">Mr Bello Abubakar says he does not go and find women, they come to him<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p class=\"first\"><b>Nigerian Mohammed Bello Abubakar, 84, has advised other men not to follow his example and marry 86 women.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The former teacher and Muslim preacher, who lives in Niger State with his wives and at least 170 children, says he is able to cope only with the help of God.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A man with 10 wives would collapse and die, but my own power is given by Allah. That is why I have been able to control 86 of them,&#8221; he told the BBC.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By FIONN HARGREAVES FOR MAILONLINE\u00a0Courtesy Daily Mail\u00a0 Mohammed Bello Abubakar, from Central Niger State, died on Saturday It is unknown what illness Mr Abubakar died from He faced criticism from other clerics who said he could only have four wives His personal assistant said he had a premonition of death before he passed\u00a0\u00a0 A Muslim [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62910\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}