The blonde-haired,
blue-eyed white girl born to two black parents with no known white ancestry
will undergo full genetic tests.
UK-born Nmachi Ihegboro was born on Sunday with
a full head of blonde-hair and white skin, despite having no known Caucasian
ancestry from her Nigerian-born parents, the Sun reported.
The devout Christian couple
were astonished to discover they had given birth to a daughter of Caucasian
appearance, describing her as a "miracle baby".
Geneticist Dr Mark Thomas
said the odds of the couple giving birth to a white, non-albino baby were
between "many millions to one and a million to one".
"I suspect there's
been a mixture of a mutation, like albinism, combined with a dormant white
gene," he said.
Genetic experts are now
studying Nmachi to determine why she has such European features but her father
Ben said it doesn't quite matter how the baby came about.
"She's a beautiful,
miracle baby and we love her," he said.
“She could be green and
yellow — we would love her the same."
Mr Ihegboro said he had no
doubt that he was the father
Jos, the Plateau state capital, boiled yet again recently leaving in the wake of it hundreds of lives lost and properties worth billions of Naira destroyed. A good number of those who survived crisis have been economically displaced and may have to start life all over again.
A number of people would have kept their dead parents in the mortuary for months, thereby delaying the natural process of decomposition, all for fear of kidnap in the southeast today.
Deregulation, the magic wand, we've been told is the only solution to our petroleum needs. Nigerians, the federal government insists, must embrace deregulation if they need petroleum products or face the fate of returning to the medieval era of using firewood and stones or at best acquire plenty of donkeys from northern Nigeria, if they must move around.
Hey Ladies, In the last publication we
talked about being independent as a lady and highlighted so many points, but we
want to continue exploring the independent state of mind placing emphasis on
when the quest for independence could turn into arrogance in homes or amidst
friends.
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