Opinion, World

I was sitting quietly in my office doing some work and a question suddenly gripped me: what would it be like if someone at this exact moment stormed in, kidnapped me, burned down my house and threatened to sell me into slavery? This for the so-called crime of being a female who is working or […]

Opinion, World

Why bringing back the Nigerian girls who were kidnapped and sold as brides is about a much bigger issue, and one that is almost never talked about in the U.S. – human trafficking. In the middle of all of the Donald Sterling talk and debate over whether the Clippers did enough or not in the […]

World

Nigerian security forces had advance warning that 329 Nigerian schoolgirls would be kidnapped from Chibok and failed to act, according to disturbing findings by Amnesty International. RELATED: First Lady Delivers President’s Weekly Address, Discusses Abducted Nigerian Girls [VIDEO] After conducting multiple interviews and independently verifying information, it has been determined that the military had more than […]

Politics

RELATED: First Lady Calls For Return Of Nigerian Girls Nigerian Student Describes Boko Haram Abduction First Lady Michelle Obama took over the president’s weekly address Saturday to talk about the plight of Nigerian women and girls who were abducted by the Islamist group Boko Haram. First Lady Michelle Obama Delivers First Weekly Address

Politics

First Lady Michelle Obama posted the following on Twitter. Our prayers are with the missing Nigerian girls and their families. It’s time to #BringBackOurGirls. -mo pic.twitter.com/glDKDotJRt — The First Lady (@FLOTUS) May 7, 2014

LAGOS, Nigeria – Scores of girls and young women kidnapped from a school in Nigeria are being forced to marry their Islamic extremist abductors, a civil society group reported Wednesday. RELATED: 234 Girls Abducted In Nigeria Still Missing [VIDEO] Parents say the girls are being sold in to marriage to Boko Haram militants for 2,000 naira ($12), Halite […]

Four Nigerian men were beaten and flogged for being gay by an Islamic court in the northern city of Bauchi, according to the Liberty Voice. The men, who were among a group of people arrested late last year, had their confessions of being homosexual allegedly forced out of them after they had been beaten up […]

Crime

Nigerian father Chris Elvis has been arrested for allegedly fatally beating his 4-year-old child, Godrich, (pictured) and padlocking his mouth to prevent him from screaming as the ‘evil’ was being beaten out of him, according to the International Business Times. SEE ALSO: Person Of The Day: Shirley Chisholm The 30-year-old Lagos native, who works as a security guard for […]

World

A woman in Nigeria’s Nasarawa State is disowning her cat for reportedly practicing what she believes is homosexual behavior, the Leadership reports. RELATED: Nigeria’s President Bans Same-Sex Marriage According to the woman, the cat had been practicing “an unnatural sexual behavior” for years, which she called “a contradiction of the laws of nature.” “Bull” had […]

World

A young Nigerian boy who managed to breach the security of the Benin-City airport and stow away to Lagos has been arrested and turned over to the Federal Airports Authority, reports Vanguard. The boy, who has not been identified, hopped out of the main wheel of the Arik Air aircraft when it landed at Murtala […]

Nation

Oluwole Olofin (pictured), a N.Y.C. cabbie shot by a passenger 21 years ago, continued working succumbing to his injuries this year, and now his family wants justice for the fallen Father, whose gunman was never caught, according to the NY Daily News. SEE ALSO: Russell Simmons Apologizes For Harriet Tubman Sex Tape “He went 21 […]

NewsOne Original, World

Chinua Achebe (pictured) — perhaps the most-influential voice in the history of African literature — died after a short illness, robbing the world of a literary elder who brought the trials and tribulations of Nigeria to the world’s consciousness for the last half century. Tributes for the 82-year-old Achebe, a scholar, poet, and social critic, […]