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Queer Nigerians face police brutality Why were they erased from #EndSARS?

URL copied to clipboard Matthew Blaise has first-hand experience of the notorious police unit that in October sparked the powerful #EndSARS protest in Nigeria. On 10 July, as he made his way to Victoria Island beach, he was arrested by men from the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) unit.  “They pushed me into their van and drove me away,” Blaise says. At the police station, officers badgered him with questions, trying to get him to change his legal statement. They wanted him to declare that he was homosexual and say that he had just had sex. The 21-year-old gay rights activist says he was arrested for “effeminacy and perceived homosexuality”. Though being gay or effeminate is not a crime in Nigeria, it becomes one if you’re caught engaging in gay sex.

12 Women Leaders That Changed The World In 2020

Over the past year, the world has been battered by multiple crises, including a global pandemic that has infected tens of millions, cost more than 1.5 million lives, and devastated almost every nation’s economy. But according to a study by the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and the World Economic Forum (WEF), countries led by women had “systematically and significantly better” outcomes related to Covid-19, which were the result of “proactive and coordinated policy responses” such as earlier lockdowns. Read more: That got us thinking: in this year of challenge, which women have offered models of creative, thoughtful and decisive leadership? Whether guiding a nation with a steady hand or rising up against injustice, these leaders offer glimpses of how to make progress in the most difficult of circumstances.

A Day in the Live Wizkid, Commemorating Chinua Achebe at 90, ELOY Awards…See YNaija s Top 10 Events for November » YNaija

A Day in the Live Wizkid, Commemorating Chinua Achebe at 90, ELOY Awards…See YNaija s Top 10 Events for November » YNaija
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