A black lawyer friend of mine and a white administrative assistant were standing at a booth and a white man (excuse my racial distinctions) approached them and proceeded to ask the admin a legal question under the assumption that she was the attorney and my friend was the admin. If this isn’t racial sterotyping what else can it be?

The Nigeria-based Legal Defense and Assistance Project, a non governmental organization says its work received a significant boost after receiving a share of 500 thousand dollars from the United States-based McArthur Foundation. The organization, based in Nigeria’s commercial capital, Lagos offers support and legal assistance to political prisoners and defends human rights. It also works [...]

U.N. Human Rights Chief, Louise Arbour, says she is pleased former Chadian president Hissene Habre will finally face justice for human rights violations committed during his eight-year rule. She says the latest change to Senegal’s constitution now makes it possible for courts in the country to try Habre. Lisa Schlein reports for VOA from the [...]

AN eminent Norwegian-born former Paris magistrate, Dr. Eva Jolly, has said that the former Chairman of the NIgerian Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, was sacrificed for daring to probe a former governor from one of the oil-rich Niger Delta states and a prominent daughter of an erstwhile president of the country.
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An ugly incident happened on board a Lagos-bound British Airways airliner that calls for an immediate investigation by the Nigerian Embassy in London. Below is the story (as reported by Stephen Moyes of Mirror on April 7, 2008) of the incident that involved some 130 Nigerians on the flight:
A British Airways captain ordered 136 [...]

Its numerous coastal islands (Bijagós Archipelagoes), lagoons and extensive mangrove waterways, plus a broken law enforcement system makes Bissau the ideal drug trafficking hub in the world.

The Nigerian Communications Commission has ordered two mobile operators, MTN Nigeria Communications Limited and Celtel Nigeria Limited, to refund about N4.7bn to subscribers for poor quality of service rendered in the month of January. The directive to MTN and Celtel were issued following a quality of service test conducted by NCC in January. Image: Mobileafrica.net