Nigeria | Presidential candidate makes U-turn on LGBTQ rights
Facing a backlash, Nigerian presidential candidate Donald Duke has changed his mind and now says he believes that gay people should indeed remain criminals.
Nigeria | Police parade 57 arrested at so-called ‘gay initiation’
The media in Nigeria has uncritically reported claims by the police that a large group of men were arrested while being “initiated into a homosexual club” in Lagos.
Nigeria | Police arrest dozens of party-goers “accused” of homosexuality
It’s been reported that between 50 and 100 men and women were arrested while partying at a hotel in Asaba, in the Delta State of Nigeria, on allegations of homosexuality. According to Nigeria’s LGBTQ news website, NoStringsNG, police raided the hotel at around 2 a.m. on Sunday, arresting scores of party-goers on charges that they were […]