NoStringsNG, a website that provides a voice for LGBT Nigerians, has again taken aim at blackmailers and disreputable journalists preying on their allegedly gay countrymen. Gossip Mill, a Nigerian gossip and entertainment website, was the latest target of NoStringsNG, which objected to a Gossip Mill article and photos that outed a reportedly gay student at … Continue reading
A Nigerian man was kidnapped this past weekend, blackmailed, accused of homosexuality and released after he paid a ransom. The kidnapping happened around noon on Saturday, July 2, at No.2 Afam Road Oyigbo, Rivers State, Nigeria. The victim, here called Prince, told NoStrings that he was picked up by his abductor after several chats with … Continue reading
By Mike Daemon In Nigeria today, hatred of LGBTIQ people is so bad that young people are organizing groups to trap suspected homosexuals, then strip them, beat them, extort money from them, and sometimes turn them over to police. Many cases like these go on, unreported in the Nigerian mainstream media. I witnessed just such … Continue reading
Passage of the Same-Sex Marriage Prohibition Bill by Nigeria’s federal legislature has led to increased harassment, blackmail and extortion of the LGBTI community, sometimes by police, even though the bill has not been signed into law. For example, Mayowa K., a gay man, reported that he was stopped in the Ojudu-Berger area of Lagos, on … Continue reading
