Toyin Ajao

On 13 January 2014, Nigerian president Goodluck Jonathan signed an anti-gay bill into law, whose punishment includes 14 years imprisonment for anyone that enters into same-sex marriage, 10 years for any organization or people that support gay rights as well as any individual that displays same-se

Over a month ago, news of the unspeakable abduction of over a hundred girls in Chibok, a small town in Borno State, which is in the northern part of Nigeria, hit the world. As events unraveled, that figure increased to 276, as reported by the mainstream media.