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Thousands of people have been filmed ransacking a food aid warehouse in Nigeria amid widespread unrest in the African country. The warehouse, located in the city of Jos, was targeted at the weekend after angry demonstrators accused the government of ‘hiding’ food aid from them. Footage shows people clambering on the roof of the warehouse, … Read more
An American citizen was kidnapped near the town of Birnin Konni in southern Niger in the early hours of Tuesday morning, three security sources and a local official told Reuters. The full details of the kidnapping were not immediately clear, and no one had claimed responsibility on Tuesday morning. The missionary, who had been living … Read more
The UN has called on Nigeria to scrap the death sentence handed to a musician by a Sharia court for sharing a blasphemous song on WhatsApp. Yahaya Aminu Sharif, 22, was handed the death penalty last month by a Sharia court in Kano, in Nigeria’s mostly Muslim north, and faces being hanged. ‘Music is not … Read more
Twin boy, three, was found dead at his home by health workers and appeared ‘malnourished’, inquest hears Taiwo Abubakar was found dead by health workers after concerns were raised Taiwo, 3, had been living at home for asylum seekers in Cardiff before his death Police are investigating the circumstances and post-mortem will be carried out … Read more
Rapists will be surgically castrated and anyone who rapes a child will face the death penalty under new laws in Nigerian state Anyone raping a child under age 14 will face the death penalty in state of Kaduna Men convicted of rape will face surgical castration under the new legislation Reported cases of rape in … Read more
13-year-old boy is jailed for ten years for blasphemy by Nigerian Sharia court after he ‘used foul language towards Allah during an argument’ Omar Farouq was sentenced on Tuesday by a court in the northern Kano State Lawyer claims sentence is unconstitutional under Nigerian and international law Farouq’s legal team say they have not been … Read more
Why did I go so long without the fiery delights of Nigerian cooking, wonders Tom Nearly three decades spent in London, filling my face with all this fine city has to offer. And only a few days back did I first taste suya: grilled slices of meat, lavished with yaji, a vigorous mix of salt, … Read more
More than 5,000 migrants will have crossed the Channel in small boats this year by this weekend. Undeterred by the tragic death of a young Sudanese man earlier this week, hundreds more are expected to attempt to reach Britain in the coming days. Yesterday the Home Office announced 164 migrants arrived on the Kent coast … Read more
Starving boy, 12, is rescued after spending two years chained up in an animal shed living off goat feed while his cruel father and three step-mothers lived in comfort with his 17 siblings in Nigeria Boy was found living among goats & chickens in a ram-shackled shed in Nigeria Police found his father & his … Read more
Police have freed 15 children from an Islamic school in central Nigeria where they were kept in chains and tortured. The children, aged between two and 10, were discovered Sunday in a ‘dehumanising condition’ at an informal Koran school in the town of Suleja in Niger state, regional police spokesman Wasiu Abiodun said on Tuesday. … Read more