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Why visa rejections do not Stop Nigerian migrants

In our series of letters from African journalists, novelist and writer Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani considers why Nigerians put their lives at risk and opt for dangerous routes to Europe when they fail to get visas.
Even the official route for Africans wishing to visit the West is paved with indignity.
I still have vivid memories of my first visit to the British High Commission in Lagos a little over a decade ago.
The swarm of sweaty applicants in the unending queue, many of whom had arrived as early as 04:00.
The battalion of whispering men who besieged me as soon as I arrived, offering to manufacture whatever document I required, be it bank statements or medical reports....

Xenophobia: Nigerian Union Reports New Attacks In South Africa

The Nigerian Union in South Africa on Tuesday reported new xenophobic attacks against Nigerians and other foreigners in Sternkopf, Namakwa Municipality, Northern Cape Province of South Africa.
The President of the Union, Ikechukwu Anyene, said in Pretoria, South Africa, that the Northern Cape Province Chapter Chairman of the Union reported the incident to its National Secretariat....

Tyga and Kylie Jenner pulled over by police

Tyga got pulled over as he was taking his underage girlfriend Kylie Jenner to Disneyland, and the cops first question, "What's the rush?"
A CHP officer clocked Tyga going 82 on the freeway -- that's 17 MPH over the speed limit...

Berkeley balcony collapse: Inside 'run-down' Library Gardens complex where Irish students died in party tragedy

These are pictures showing 'run-down' conditions in the Library Gardens apartment block where five Irish students and an Irish-American woman were killed in a balcony collapse in California.

Ashley Donohoe, 22, and Olivia Burke, Eoghan Culligan, Niccolai Schuster, Lorcan Miller and Eimear Walsh, who were all 21, died when the fourth-floor balcony collapsed at around 1am local time yesterday...

People Are Trying To Set Me Against Buhari – Tinubu

The National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has raised the alarm over a plot by some people to pit him against President Muhammadu Buhari.
Tinubu said this in a statement by his media office while responding to a report by an online medium...

Irish Schoolboy Blackmailed by Nigerian Gang Kills Himself

A schoolboy who killed himself after being duped into sending intimate photos online was subject to 'relentless' blackmail by a Nigerian gang, his parents have claimed.
Gerard and Teresa Hughes said their 17-year-old son Ronan, from County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, killed himself just hours after learning that the faceless criminals hounding him had followed through with a threat to send the images to one of his Facebook friends unless he paid them £3,300...

'Old age will limit my performance as Nigeria's president' – Buhari admits.

President Muhammadu Buhari has admitted that his age would limit his performance as the President of the country.
Buhari, who was   a military governor at 33 and Head of State   at the age of 40, said he would have loved being a President when he was at a younger age. He will be 73 on December 17, 2015...