Tag: Nigeria
Nigerian TikTok stars sentenced to 20 lashes
A magistrate’s court in the northern Nigerian city of Kano has ordered two TikTok stars to be whipped and made to sweep the court premises for a mont [...]
Nigerian TikTokers sentenced to whipping for mocking official
Two TikTok stars in Nigeria have been sentenced to a whipping and forced to clean the court after they used social media to mock a government officia [...]
Seven men arrested over Nigeria woman’s torture
Police in Nigeria have arrested seven men over allegations that they assaulted and tortured a 40-year-old woman in the south-eastern state of Enugu.
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Nigerian police find 10 bodies near Lagos-Abuja road
Nigerian police say they have found the bodies of 10 young men abandoned "along a bush path" in the southern state of Edo.
In a statement, police [...]
Nigerians displaced by insurgency struggling – HRW
Human Rights Watch is warning that more than 200,000 people in north-east Nigeria who have been displaced by an Islamist insurgency are struggling to [...]
Nigeria at ‘high risk’ of Ebola spread from Uganda
Nigerian authorities say the country is "at high risk" of importation of the Ebola virus following the outbreak of the disease in Uganda.
The West [...]