The story of how soldiers suspended fighting on Christmas Day in 1914 during the World War 1 to celebrate the season remains an interesting one till date. A video sent to one of our correspondents by a soldier showed some heavily armed soldiers yelling on the Christmas Day. Others were busy removing the bodies from a quiet highway on the outskirts of a town in Borno where the operation took place on Christmas Day. Audu said, “We spent the Christmas Day fighting the Boko Haram sect and we thank God for victory on that day. He said, “I was in the bush on Christmas Day and it was just like any normal day.

Source: Punch December 29, 2019 03:00 UTC