A TRADITIONAL Nigerian rainmaker was killed by lightning this week as he climbed on to a building and attempted to divert a storm. The man, known as Rasaq, was employed by a family in Abeokuta, south-western Nigeria, to hold off the rain threatening a burial wake. Wearing only a pair of red shorts, Rasaq had just climbed on to the uncompleted roof of the building and started appealing to Sango, the Yoruba god of thunder, when lightning struck and threw him to the ground.