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NIGERIA: Wave of repression on so-called ‘amoral’ behaviour

IRIN

Tuesday, September 18, 2007

Human rights advocates in Nigeria are voicing alarm about recent arrests of cross-dressing men and of women allegedly wearing ‘indecent’ clothes,...

NIGERIA: Tens of thousands languishing in prison awaiting trial

IRIN

Friday, August 24, 2007

About 60 percent of inmates in Nigerian prisons await trial, often for years, in unsanitary, overcrowded conditions, human rights groups and UN...

NIGERIA: Muslim groups join the struggle

PlusNews

Wednesday, August 22, 2007

Every weekend groups of Muslim women belonging to Al' Muminat (The Believing Women) meet in Lagos, Nigeria's commercial capital, and along with...

NIGERIA: Supporting discordant couples to stay together

PlusNews

Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Ibrahim Umoru enjoyed a harmonious relationship with his wife in Lagos, Nigeria's most populous city, until he tested positive for HIV in 2001....

NIGERIA: Privatising schools and national unity

IRIN

Thursday, July 19, 2007

LAGOS One policy the Nigerian government embarked on at the end of the Biafran civil war in 1970 to try to re-unite the nation was to bring...

NIGERIA: Children dying needlessly from measles and other preventable diseases

IRIN

Monday, July 16, 2007

Measles is a preventable disease yet when it strikes in Nigeria it finds a ready pool of victims most of whom are children. In June more than 50...

NIGERIA: Positive mother speaks out

PlusNews

Saturday, May 12, 2007

When Yinka Jegede-Ekpe tested positive for HIV 10 years ago, at the age of 19, the last thing on her mind was marriage and children. At the time,...

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