Despite the harsh reality for LGBTQ folks in Nigeria, members of the LGBTIQ+ community showed resilience by showing up to celebrate pride.

Despite the harsh reality for LGBTQ folks in Nigeria, members of the LGBTIQ+ community showed resilience by showing up to celebrate pride.
LIFEE has worked with the police in Delta State to apprehend a suspected homophobic robber in the Ibusa area of Delta State. He is charged with robbery and attempted murder of a local man whom he and his associates suspect is gay. The arrest came a week after Delta State police met with representatives from …
Condom use, HIV, human sexuality, abuse from homophobic religious leaders, coming out, human rights, internalized homophobia and effeminophobia. All those and more were topics of discussion at a March 3 workshop attended by about two dozen gay men in the Asaba area of Nigeria. To present the workshop, NoStringsNG, the Nigerian LGBTIQ media organization, collaborated with …
On March 5, delegates from LIFFE visited the obi (traditional leader), Senator Nosike Ikpo of Ibusa town, and the Delta State commissioner of police, Muhammad Mustafa, to inform them about a group of local criminals. That gang repeatedly lured people, including gay men, to their hideouts in Ibusa town, where they would beat them, rob …