Nigeria Archives - MambaOnline - LGBTQ South Africa online https://www.mambaonline.com/tag/nigeria/ South Africa's leading LGBTQ news and community platform Tue, 04 Sep 2018 19:37:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.mambaonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/cropped-mamba_logo_output-32x32.png Nigeria Archives - MambaOnline - LGBTQ South Africa online https://www.mambaonline.com/tag/nigeria/ 32 32 Nigeria | Presidential candidate makes U-turn on LGBTQ rights https://www.mambaonline.com/2018/09/04/nigeria-presidential-candidate-makes-u-turn-on-lgbtq-rights/ https://www.mambaonline.com/2018/09/04/nigeria-presidential-candidate-makes-u-turn-on-lgbtq-rights/#comments Tue, 04 Sep 2018 19:18:48 +0000 https://www.mambaonline.com/?p=88155 Facing a backlash, Nigerian presidential candidate Donald Duke has changed his mind and now says he believes that gay people should indeed remain criminals.

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]]> https://www.mambaonline.com/2018/09/04/nigeria-presidential-candidate-makes-u-turn-on-lgbtq-rights/feed/ 1 Nigeria | Police parade 57 arrested at so-called ‘gay initiation’ https://www.mambaonline.com/2018/08/28/nigeria-police-parade-57-arrested-at-so-called-gay-initiation/ https://www.mambaonline.com/2018/08/28/nigeria-police-parade-57-arrested-at-so-called-gay-initiation/#respond Tue, 28 Aug 2018 11:50:03 +0000 https://www.mambaonline.com/?p=87912 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.

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]]> https://www.mambaonline.com/2018/08/28/nigeria-police-parade-57-arrested-at-so-called-gay-initiation/feed/ 0 Nigeria | Police arrest dozens of party-goers “accused” of homosexuality https://www.mambaonline.com/2018/06/12/nigeria-police-arrest-party-goers-accused-of-homosexuality/ https://www.mambaonline.com/2018/06/12/nigeria-police-arrest-party-goers-accused-of-homosexuality/#respond Tue, 12 Jun 2018 14:34:52 +0000 https://www.mambaonline.com/?p=84549 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 […]

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