cold:

These kind of cases are rare but they do happen.It is referred to as the 'Lazarus Syndrome'.An allusion to the story of Jesus bringing Lazarus back to life.A more scientific term is known as a 'Near Death Experience (NDE)'. Where someone is pronounced 'clinically dead' but regains conciousness or a pulse is found moments or days later.So it is not a Nigerian phenomena as can be deduced from most of the comments here.

George Rodonaia underwent one of the most extended cases of a near-death experience ever recorded. Pronounced dead immediately after he was hit by a car in 1976, he was left for three days in the morgue. He did not "return to life" until a doctor began to make an incision in his abdomen as part of an autopsy procedure

http://www.near-death.com/experiences/evidence10.html

yamakuza:

How do you account for Rigor Mortis?

After how many days does decomposition commence?

190_@:

Only in Nigeria

Olacharles:

The man should just thank God that he isn't a muslim he would have been real dead inside the grave by now.
I think all these experiences should be an eye opener to our muslim brothers on the need to expunge/discard that aspect of quaran that stipulate that someone should be buried within 24 hours of his/her being declared dead.

Iranoladun:

All the people talking about freezer or zero degree temperature in the morgue are either not living in Nigeria or has never been near a Nigerian morgue.  They don't keep corpse inside a casket or freezer either. most time corpse are kept on a slab or even on the bare floor inside the so call morgue

Most of the government hospital morgue do not have constant electricity.  I don't know if the man was actually pronounced clinically dead before being deposited in the morgue but if he was probably in a coma it is possible for him to wake up in a typical Nigerian morgue without being frozen to death.

Lesson from this for the peeps running our public Morgue is to insist on a Doctor clinically certifying that someone is dead before being admitted in the morgue!

Iranoladun:

All the people talking about freezer or zero degree temperature in the morgue are either not living in Nigeria or has never been near a Nigerian morgue.  They don't keep corpse inside a casket or freezer either. most time corpse are kept on a slab or even on the bare floor inside the so call morgue

Most of the government hospital morgue do not have constant electricity.  I don't know if the man was actually pronounced clinically dead before being deposited in the morgue but if he was probably in a coma it is possible for him to wake up in a typical Nigerian morgue without being frozen to death.

Lesson from this for the peeps running our public Morgue is to insist on a Doctor clinically certifying that someone is dead before being admitted in the morgue!]

cold:

A plausible explanation could be (And I emphasise,this is my personal opinion) based on the premise that rigor mortis sets in in phases; 1st phase-Delay period,2nd phase-onset period (reversible) 3rd phase-rigor (irreversible) & the 4th phase-Resolution.There is still a window of opportunity so to speak between phase 1 and phase 2 within a certain period.In addition, the duration it takes the different phases of rigor mortis to set in is also based on the climatic conditions of the immediate environment at the time.
One thing you need to realise is that in forensic,pathological practice,the intensity of rigor mortis is assessed on a purely subjective basis.Meaning whether skeletal muscles offer resistance when joints are moved (flexion/extension) may be determined differently by different physicians.

Batam:

I read one mu-mu comment that MFM is try to seek for members. Have you been to prayer city before? For all of you that don't believe in miracles I pray that you encountered a problem that will lead you to believe that the supernatural power of God is still working

Olacharles:

The man should just thank God that he isn't a muslim he would have been real dead inside the grave by now.
I think all these experiences should be an eye opener to our muslim brothers on the need to expunge/discard that aspect of quaran that stipulate that someone should be buried within 24 hours of his/her being declared dead.