Man to marry pillow

A Nigerian man who says he cannot get a girlfriend because of his bad stutter has announced plans to marry his pillow.

Okeke Ikechukwu, 26, a labourer, from Lagos, told the Daily Metro that his stammer made it difficult for him to speak to girls.

"Since I am a stutterer, ladies have always laughed at me whenever I try to talk to them," he said.

"I have needs, and so I have taken to sleeping with my pillow in my arms ever since I was 16. I have grown to fall in love with it, and I intend to spend the rest of my life with it."

Mr Ikechukwu also said that, unlike a woman, the pillow would cost him little or nothing to maintain for the rest of its life.

"I think it will make the ideal mate for me," he said.