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Ancient artifacts from the Nigerian city of Ife can give observers insight into the history of its culture, dynasties and many deities. Art objects from the once-powerful Yoruba kingdom are prized by collectors and considered cultural treasures of the African nation, but a bronze sculpture that recently had been reported as stolen from the area proved to be something else. On Feb. 25 Mexico seized what was thought to be an ancient bronze sculpture from the southwestern Nigerian city after a buyer, whose identity was not revealed, attempted to smuggle it into the country via Mexico CityÂ’s main airport, Mexican...

‘EVIL’ MAID CONFESSES TO USING RATS TO COOK FOR HER MADAM | VIDEO A shocking video clip has emerged on social media showing the moment a house-help publicly confessed to using rodents to prepare food for her madam. A Cotonou-born househelp named Felicia in a viral video, confessed to using two rats to cook Jollof rice for her madam. The video filmed in Yoruba, shows Felicia crying and confessing to killing the rats in the kitchen and using it to prepare the meal for her madam.

Barely 24 hours before his death, Patrick Sawyer had a rather strange - and in the words of medical and diplomatic sources here, "Indiscipline" encounter with nurses and health workers at First Consultants Hospital in Obalende, one of the most crowded parts of Lagos, a population of some 21 million inhabitants, FrontPageAfrica has learned. Looking to get to the bottom of Sawyer's strange ailment on the Asky Airline flight, which Sawyer transferred on in Togo, hospital officials say, he was tested for both malaria and HIV AIDS. However, when both tests came back negative, he was then asked whether he...

DAKAR, Senegal — A mob attacked gay people in a neighborhood in Abuja, the capital of Nigeria, dragging young men from their homes, beating them with nail-studded clubs and whips, and shouting that they were “cleansing the community” of gays, several Nigerian activists and a witness said Saturday. The attack took place late Wednesday night in the Gishiri neighborhood, and one victim was beaten nearly to death, the witness said. Afterward, the mob of about 50 young men dragged four of the victims to a nearby police station, where the police further beat and insulted them, said the witness, who...

NEW DELHI: Nigerian diplomat G A Ojedokun, who was caught on Monday trying to take out $2.27 million, has been restrained from leaving the country at the instance of the Enforcement Directorate (ED), which holds that the defence advisor to the Nigerian high commission may be holding clues to the thriving foreign exchange racket in the country. The ED has got in touch with the ministry of external affairs (MEA) to prevent Ojedokun, who had flashed his diplomatic immunity to get away, from leaving. The diplomat is interned at the guest house in Vasant Vihar where he had been putting...

ONITSHA, Nigeria — Mobs stopped killing and looting in this battered Nigerian city on Thursday and turned to disposing of the evidence in the crudest of ways. With smoldering bonfires fueled by pieces of wood and old tires, men burned the remains of their Muslim victims on downtown streets, leaving charred remains that motorists swerved to avoid. As the city's thousands of surviving Muslims struggled to return to their northern homes or huddled at police stations, Christian residents expressed little remorse for their role in five days of religious violence sparked by anger over cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad. At...