The United Nations refugee agency has criticised Nigeria for breaching international treaties after forcefully deporting a Cameroonian Anglophone separatist and his supporters. UNHCR said Thursday that most of those handed over to Yaoundé authorities had applied for asylum in Nigeria. Julius Ayuk Tabe and 46 others were extradited at Cameroon’s request on 26 January. Cameroon says the 47 are “terrorists” …

A Nigerian university student was killed on 31 January reportedly by locals in the Turkish Cyprus’s province of Famagusta. Kennedy Taomwabwa Dede, 28, was an architecture student of Eastern Mediterranean University. He was reportedly abducted from the city centre by a group who kidnapped him against his will.   Dede was taken home and killed by the group of eight …

After news of Libyan slave markets went around world at the end of 2017, many migrants stuck in North Africa decided to return home voluntarily. However, those returning to Nigeria complain that they face the same problems they had left behind. Katrin Gänsler reports. Loveth Ekumabor recently returned to Benin City, the capital of Edo State and Nigeria’s epicentre of …