Nigeria: 'Anti-gay' Nigeria loses bid to host commonwealth games

The Commonwealth Games Federation, a multinational sporting event in which some 5,000 athletes from 53 former British colonies, the United Kingdom and Mozambique compete every four years, has chosen Glasgow, Scotland, as the host city for the 2014 games. Nigeria’s Abuja had been considered a strong contender to host the event, but the country’s homophobic policies coupled with questions raised by the African nation’s gay activists about ongoing persecution of gay and lesbian Nigerians seem to have derailed the city’s bid.