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Nigeria's use of Pidgin English ruffles the feathers of purists (5 stories)

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Nigeria - News January 18, 2014

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Programs at the station are broadcast only in pidgin - the English-based patois that's fast becoming Nigeria's lingua franca.

Twelve Nigerian men face stoning by Sharia Court for crime of homosexuality. Eleven will be tried under Islamic Sharia law and the twelfth, a Christian, under secular law.

Nigeria's Internet Newspaper, Ynaija.Com Issues Editorial: "Let Us Be Clear, We Totally - Unequivocally - Stand Against The Anti-Gay Law" Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, the Nigerian president, had signed the controversial Same-Sex Marriage Prohibition Bill into law.

Arrests have spread across Nigeria as dozens more people perceived to be gay have been rounded up and questioned, activists said Friday, describing another wave of police attention unleashed by a wide-ranging new anti-gay law.

It is all happening like never before because for the first time in the history of the show, Nigerian Idol train will stop over at Benue state as auditions will also be holding in the city of Makurdi.

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