NIGERIA PUTS $310,000 BOUNTY ON BOKO HARAM MASTERMIND, KABIRU SOKOTO

Nigeria's police are offering a 50 million naira ($309,600) reward for information leading to the recapture of the main suspect in a Christmas Day bomb attack, who escaped within 24 hours of his arrest this week.

Police arrested Kabiru Sokoto on Tuesday and while they were taking him from police headquarters to search his house outside Abuja, he allegedly escaped.