Strange Story: How Stray Lions Held Aso Rock Hostage

Since the days of Shehu Shagari as President, this particular man has been the first citizen’s animals’ keeper. Shagari left office some 30 years ago. That means the man, 58, took up the job in his 20s.

But recently the man, popularly known as SA Lion, left the president’s zoo against his wish:

Death snatched him away from the beasts he had been tending in the past 30 years. The animals’ keeper, Mallam Yahaya Adamu (Dan Zaria) more appropriately, S.A. Lion, hailed from Kaduna State.