I have so many questions after reading this article. For example, what do the two quoted statements below actually mean?
some pay ₦100.00 — ₦400.00 a night since they know the gain in form of business yields
immediately one does it with a man who intends to use one's sperm-duct for his business to flourish, one ceases to be a man again
I've also heard that the Hisbah who enforce Sharia law typically target bars and restaurants in these areas of Kano for selling alcohol, but rather curiously they have a habit of leaving these dan daudus alone. How true is this?
Throwback: See 1988 Article About Homosexual Prostitutes In Kano
In the Sabon-Gari area of Kano are four streets: Abadie, Freetown, Santgiwa and Weatherhead. Apart from Weatherhead which is about 600 metres away, the three other streets are adjacent to each other. One common feature of these four streets is the proliferation of dingy hotels and brothels.
This is a Kano red area which is different from red areas all over the world in one unique feature. The prostitutes with light make-up, feminine-looking clothes and who effect feminine voices are males.
They are the dan-daodus, who, unlike regular homosexuals, peddle their male flesh, not for fun, but for cash.
And every evening these streets are filled with different cars coming to pick a dan-daodu or a girl, depending on the patron’s tastes or choice.
Dan-daodu is an Hausa name for homosexual.
This is a trade or profession practised by young men between the ages of 14 and above. There are two categories: Those who pay ₦10.00 for a small room per day in a hotel or rent a room among innocent tenants. And there are others who come from their homes to this area from 6.00 p.m. hanging around for prospective customers. And even those in hotels or rented houses are not allowed to perpetrate their act in their rooms, thus a customer has to take his ‘dan-daodu’ to his own rented accommodation or home.
Also there are times when ‘dan-daodus’ don’t have customers and on such occasions they resort to acting as intermediary for men who want girls and since they (dan-daodus) know these girls, they easily persuade such girls to follow the men after collecting their commission on the deal which ranges from ₦5.00 — ₦10.00 depending on their influence on the girl.
Prime People kept vigil for three nights to study their modus operandi before this reporter later talked to some of them. Most of them agreed that they came into the business because of poverty and others because of interest which they developed from information earlier gotten on this act.
For example, Taula agreed to follow this reporter who posed as a customer after so many meetings (dan-daodus don't normally follow a stranger except those they've known or those they had seen with other dan-daodus) to his hotel room on an agreed fee of ₦40.00 a night which was paid before leaving his rented hotel room. And so we set off but since I didn't know how to go about it I told my guide and interpreter to tell Taula that I needed to be taught the act first before I could do it properly.
Before Taula started 'working' on me while my guide waited outside the door, he agreed to relate how he became a dan-daodu.
According to him ... "I came into this pofession sometime in 1987 after leaving my trading business and ever since I've been making nothing less than ₦100.00 on the average, daily." His customers are mainly rich men with Merçedes Benz who pay higher. than people like you," referring to the amount I paid for his service.
And when asked how much these rich men pay he said "some pay ₦100.00 — ₦400.00 a night since they know the gain in form of business yields."
But do you enjoy it? "Haba! If I no enjoy am how I go do am? I enjoy it more than eight years ago when I used to have fun with women and because of this I don't regret my inability to have fun with girls or bear children in life."
As to what it takes to be a 'dan-daodu' this reporter was told by other dan-daodus, as was buttressed by Taula, that all one needs to do is to first start by soliciting girls for men who need them and in this process men interested in men get to know one, before inviting one to do it with them; though initially some wouldn't lose his manhood, immediately one does it with a man who intends to use one's sperm-duct for his business to flourish, one ceases to be a man again.
Supporters of a hardline Bangladeshi preacher have heeded his call to counter fan frenzy around the World Cup by raising Islamic flags across the constitutionally secular country, putting police on alert, the force said Wednesday.
Football is extremely popular in Muslim-majority Bangladesh, with hundreds of thousands of fans supporting mainly Brazil and Argentina.
Mufti Harun Izhar, a Muslim religious leader, has urged supporters in a recent speech to take down the flags of Argentina and Brazil and raise white flags bearing the Kalima — profession of faith — wherever they could.
Such Islamic flags were raised in more than a dozen districts, leading police to say they would “act if these flags create a law and order situation”.
“We are on alert,” police spokesman Shahadat Hossain told AFP.
Since Izhar’s speech has circulated online, supporters have also held motorcycle rallies carrying the flags while playing religious songs.
The preacher told AFP that “there should be restraint in displaying support for Argentina, Brazil or any other country.”
Izhar stressed that the white flags raised by his supporters should not be confused with those used by Afghanistan’s Taliban authorities or the black banners of the Islamic State group.
“Secularists have certain attitudes towards these flags, and readily label them Taliban flags or ISIS flags — that is not correct,” he said, using an acronym for the Islamic State group.
Zahed Ur Rahman, an adviser to the prime minister, said the government was closely following the issue.
“This could send the wrong message globally,” he told reporters on Tuesday.
Some fans have also pushed back.
“Football helps people forget their hardships and challenges for a while,” said Mohammad Moniruzzaman Chisty, a passionate Brazil fan.
“For us, football is the ultimate form of entertainment.”
A major intelligence-led cybercrime investigation involving the Cyber Security Authority (CSA), the Ghana Police Service, and international law enforcement partners has culminated in the arrest and prosecution of a Nigerian national who had become a person of significant investigative interest to both the International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL) and the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
The suspect was arrested over alleged transnational cyber-enabled financial crimes linked to compromised United States bank cards.
The arrest represents a significant breakthrough in the fight against cross-border cyber-enabled financial crime.
The operation followed months of intelligence gathering and coordinated investigations led by the Cyber Security Authority in collaboration with the Ghana Police Service, with investigative cooperation and intelligence sharing involving INTERPOL and the FBI to help dismantle an international financial crime network.
The accused, Aderinsola Oluwanifemi Adeleye, a Nigerian national who operates a cement block manufacturing business and resides at Oyarifa in Accra, has been arraigned before court following extensive investigations into alleged fraudulent Point of Sale (POS) transactions carried out at multiple fuel stations across Ghana.
The case began on June 25, 2026, when the manager of Haatso Shell Filling Station reported to the police that Shell Headquarters had received a complaint from Ecobank Ghana PLC concerning suspicious POS transactions conducted using two Citibank debit cards issued in the United States.
According to investigators, the unauthorized transactions were traced to POS terminals at Haatso Shell Filling Station and Osu Total Filling Station.
Internal investigations by Shell Ghana subsequently identified two fuel pump attendants as persons suspected of facilitating the fraudulent transactions.
The two attendants were arrested and, during police interrogation, disclosed that the accused, together with another accomplice, had repeatedly visited Haatso Shell Filling Station, where they allegedly used Citibank debit cards through mobile devices to process fraudulent transactions.
Later that same day, at about 8:00 p.m., the accused allegedly returned to Haatso Shell Filling Station to conduct another transaction using one of the Citibank debit cards.
He was immediately recognized by the two pump attendants as the individual involved in the alleged fraudulent activities and was arrested by the police.
A search conducted on the accused at the time of his arrest led to the recovery of a Beretta pistol loaded with two rounds of 9mm live ammunition and a Citibank Visa debit card bearing the number 5262 2611 2797 4764.
Investigators subsequently searched the offices of AA Global Homes Construction Limited at Katamanso in Accra.
During the operation, officers recovered 15 rounds of live 9mm ammunition and one empty 9mm shell casing concealed in a drawer in the accused's office.
The recovered ammunition and shell casing were retained as exhibits pending further investigations into their possession and possible use.
Investigators disclosed that the accused had already come under the intelligence radar of the Cyber Security Authority before his arrest in connection with suspected cyber-enabled financial crimes.
Acting on intelligence gathered, the Ghana Police Service, working in collaboration with the Cyber Security Authority, obtained a court-issued search warrant to search the accused's residence at Oyarifa.
The search was executed on June 27, 2026, during which investigators recovered several electronic devices, including two mobile phones believed to have been used in the commission of the alleged offences.
The electronic devices have been retained for forensic examination to establish their evidential value and determine the full extent of the accused's alleged involvement in the criminal enterprise.
During investigations, the accused admitted using the recovered Citibank debit card to conduct transactions at both Haatso Shell Filling Station and Osu Total Filling Station.
In his cautioned statement, he claimed that an individual identified as Gail Oneara, whom he said resides in the United States, had sent him the debit card with an available balance of approximately US$10,000 for his personal use.
According to the accused, he had spent or withdrawn approximately US$8,000 from the card before his arrest.
Investigations were subsequently extended to Ecobank Ghana PLC, where an officer from the Internal Audit Department's Investigation Unit confirmed that the bank had received a fraud complaint from Citibank through Visa International regarding unauthorized transactions carried out on two Citibank customers' debit cards.
Further investigations established that the accused, acting together with accomplices who remain at large, allegedly visited several fuel stations, including Haatso Shell and Osu Total, where he connived with fuel pump attendants to process fictitious fuel purchases using stolen or compromised Citibank debit cards.
Investigators allege that once the fraudulent transactions were successfully authorized through the POS terminals, the accused received cash equivalent to the purported fuel purchases instead of fuel, thereby dishonestly obtaining the proceeds of the fraudulent transactions.
The investigation further revealed that the accused allegedly invested the proceeds of the scheme in acquiring substantial assets, including a four-bedroom storey building, a cement block manufacturing factory at Katamanso near Amrahia, a black Nissan ZNA pickup vehicle, and other properties reasonably suspected to have been purchased with proceeds of crime.
Law enforcement agencies are continuing investigations to identify and arrest other members of the criminal network, trace additional assets believed to have been acquired through illicit proceeds, and establish the full extent of the alleged fraudulent transactions.
Authorities say forensic examination of the electronic devices recovered during the searches is expected to provide further evidence regarding the activities of the syndicate and any possible international links.
The accused has since been formally charged and arraigned before the appropriate court, where the matter is currently pending.
Popular Islamic Cleric: Christians & Traditional Worshippers Can Seek My Daughter's Hand In Marriage If They Have Good Character & They Can Provide For Her
In a viral post challenging Nigeria’s religious divides, Taoheed Abdulwasiu Mustapha, popularly known as TAOSAF, declared that Christians and traditional believers are welcome to ask for his daughter’s hand in marriage — as long as they have “good character” and “decent means of livelihood.”
“I’m a Muslim, but humanity is at the core of my values,” Mustapha wrote. “If you’re from a good family, have good character, and have a decent means of livelihood, you have my respect. I will support you.”
TAOSAF said he refuses “any interpretation of religion that teaches me to hate, despise, or attack people simply because they follow a different faith.” He added: “To me, humanity comes before religious differences.”
Taking aim at religious intolerance, he wrote: “Saudi Arabia eats and dine with Israel and America… What’s your own problem…? Nonsense.”
Unmoved by potential backlash, Mustapha told critics: “If my way of life doesn’t sit well with you, that’s your choice. Go and hug the transformer.” He insisted “no amount of criticism or threat to life will change my belief in treating people with dignity and respect.”
The post has since sparked wide debate online over interfaith marriage and tolerance in Nigeria.
You spoke the uncomfortable truth that millions are too afraid to say out loud. The German team used to have a German mentality which was ruthless efficiency and cynical craftiness; always methodical and calm under pressure.
Now they are so incompetent and lack an identity that even Cape Verde would have cleaned the floor with them.
planetx: What happened to the German machine team we knew growing up, when they started being politically correct by packing Africans into the team, I knew they were done.
An infant was killed in a shooting in St. Louis, and a 10-year-old was believed to have pulled the trigger, according to St. Louis City Police Spokesperson Mitch McCoy.
Police said the 7-month-old, later identified as Kiyomi Parker, was shot the afternoon of June 25 in the Baden neighborhood.
Officers said they did a “scoop and go” on the baby, grabbing her from the scene and putting her in the backseat of a police car to rush her to a hospital.
The officer in the backseat continued life-saving measures while other officers blocked traffic to try to get the infant to the hospital faster.
She was pronounced dead at the hospital.
The 10-year-old was taken into custody the next day and charged with murder.
Based on First Alert 4’s research, it appears this is the youngest child in Missouri’s history to be charged with murder.
Missouri did not have a minimum age to charge a child with a serious felony, including murder, until 2024, when a state law set the minimum age for a minor to be certified as an adult to be 12 years old.
Police also said that a 19-year-old man was questioned and arrested. He is facing gun charges.
This is the second minor to be shot and killed in St. Louis City this week.
Most of the sardines you eat in Nigeria come from Morocco.
They also produce a lot of wheat.
They have a huge agricultural and fishing economy.
Also, being industrialised doesn't just mean home grown industries. It also refers to huge multinational companies setting up industrial plants in your country.
Most of the major automotive industries in the world have assembly lines and factories in South Africa and North Africa. In Nigeria all they are willing to do is put up one or two show rooms in Lagos and Port Harcourt.
They won't set up factories in Nigeria because Nigeria doesn't provide a conducive environment for doing business.
yemmit90: And yet, we never sees 'Made in those countries' industrial products in largest Africa market Nigeria. I don't trust this rating at all
Nigeria is a big country with most populated in Africa, industry in Lagos, PH and Warri alone may surpass majority of countries listed above. Dangote and Bua groups are more than 10 industries in some countries.
Nigeria ranks 14th in Africa, behind Kenya, Gabon and DR Congo.
The gap between Africa’s industrial leaders and lagging economies remains significant, highlighting uneven industrial development across the continent.
madridguy: This is a refreshing news. Probably another group of terrorists invited them from another country like the Lakurawa.
Lakurawa were Malians invited by a community leader in Sokoto to protect them from other bandits. Very soon every region in Nigeria will start demanding for border control in same country.
Natasha dolls are small plastic “stress relief” dolls shaped like babies. They are manufactured in China.
A stress relief doll is meant to provide emotional support for over stressed people by giving them an outlet to express their feelings of frustration and anger on the toy doll.
The Natasha dolls come in several different colours, including those of white babies, black babies and brown babies.
Chinese people say that they prefer to violently abuse the black Natasha dolls because the white ones are too “human” looking.
The video shows disturbing scenes shared across Chinese social media platforms of black dolls being punched, hit with hammers on the head and being driven over with bikes.
A viral toy is raising uncomfortable questions about race in China. Videos show the black version of the "Natasha doll" being slapped and run over, prompting criticism. On Focus on Africa, we explore what the controversy reveals about perceptions of black people in China. pic.twitter.com/WBfBwCKhVF
A popular Chinese influencer named Xiao Zeng even flew over to Nigeria to use a real life black baby as content to promote the racist trend for her followers in China:
This is racism towards black people.
Chinese influencer travels to Nigeria to take part in “harm this Natasha trend” involving black doll.
A viral stress-relief “Natasha” doll trending on Chinese social media has been deemed “absolutely diabolical” by members of Hong Kong’s Black community.
Resembling a small child, the most popular version is dark-skinned and features exaggerated racial characteristics. Buyers have filmed themselves beating, stretching, boiling and stomping on the toy.
“No design is created, marketed, and sold in isolation of thought and purpose. The design, manufacturing, and selling of a Black baby doll to abuse at one’s whims is at the root of the existence of movements like Black Lives Matter,” Monique Franz, a writer and founder of Kinsman Avenue Publishing – a non-profit which advocates for underrepresented voices – told HKFP.
“By inviting people to take out their stresses on a Black body, we invite populations to abuse our Black bodies at their whims, robbing us of our actual humanity. While this is a game to others, Black people are experiencing widespread global abuse, which is the result of portrayals of us in such degrading ways,” added Franz, who is African-American.
Made from slow-rising memory foam or soft thermoplastic rubber, the dolls remain freely available on e-commerce sites such as Taobao, and have been trending on social media platforms like RedNote and Douyin.
Jayne Jeje, an African-American entrepreneur, advocate, and long-term Hong Kong resident, told HKFP that such trends do not come out of nowhere. “There seems to be an endless fascination with Black hair, Black skin, Black lips, Black bodies, and Black culture, yet people are shocked when we speak up,” she said.
“Some of the viral videos are absolutely diabolical. I’d find them offensive no matter who was being depicted, but this is deeply personal because I am proud of my beautiful dark skin. I refuse to accept the idea that it is something to be squeezed, slapped, mocked, or turned into entertainment for the masses,” she added.
Londiwe Ngubeni – a South African actress and vocalist who lives on Lantau – told HKFP that she spotted a child with a Natasha doll at a Mui Wo supermarket. “At first, I thought she simply liked the toy. Then she began stretching, squeezing, poking the eyes and hitting the doll. When I asked why, she said it was a ‘stress reliever.’ How is relieving stress by hurting a brown baby doll acceptable?”
Ngubeni said she was furious and disappointed. The child “said her friend had given it to her. What message are we teaching children when dehumanising a Black child becomes a plaything?”
She urged manufacturers and retailers to be held to account over “products that reinforce racist attitudes.”
Innocent Mutanga of NGO Africa Center Hong Kong said the trend “risks normalising the dehumanisation of Black bodies… This is particularly disturbing as this dehumanization is directed towards Black children, demonstrating a lack of empathy for Black people, no matter the age.”
He said the China Consumers Association and State Administration for Market Regulation had stepped in to remove violent videos, with schools in mainland China banning the doll.
Although Mutanga said guidance was issued to e-commerce sites in mainland China, the product was still available on Taobao when HKFP checked on Thursday.
Mutanga urged teachers, parents and community leaders across the Greater Bay Region to link up with the Africa Centre to step up education, as people may lack “exposure to African cultures and histories.”
Chinese social media has played host to similarly abusive trends involving Black children before.
In 2022, a BBC investigation found that children in sub-Saharan Africa were being paid to perform in Chinese online videos that often involved degrading or abusive content.
Child birth is a joyful occasion. A funeral is a time of mourning.
I remember Bebeto's famous goal celebration after his wife gave birth while he was playing for Brazil at the 1994 WC.
On the other hand the death of a loved one is very depressing and demoralising and a player or coach who is dealing with grief won't find it easy to concentrate on his job.
Sagacity10: Your argument is not intelligent. Have you ever been to the labor room to stay by your spouse and see the pain they go through to bring forth a child into this world, your very first EVER.. I doubt .!!!
World Cup 2026: Didier Deschamps to miss France's final group game following death of his mother
France head coach Didier Deschamps will miss his side's final World Cup group game following the death of his mother, the French Football Federation (FFF) has confirmed.
Deschamps, 57, learned of his mother's passing on Tuesday morning and has been given permission by FFF president Philippe Diallo to fly back to France to attend the funeral.
France, who have already qualified for the knockout stages after beating Senegal and Iraq in their opening two games, face Norway on Friday in Boston to determine the winner of Group I.
In a statement, the FFF said assistant coach Guy Stephan will take charge of the squad until Deschamps returns.
As a player, Deschamps won the World Cup in 1998 and the European Championship in 2000 with France.
He became manager of the national side in 2012, and leading them to a World Cup final victory in Russia in 2018 and a defeatby Argentina in the final in 2022.
France beat Senegal 3-1 in New Jersey last week, followed by 3-0 victory- which included a two-hour weather delay in Philadelphia - against Iraq on Monday.
The teenage girl who was arrested for killing her parents earlier this week spread photos of them covered with blood via WhatsApp before she was picked up, the Telegraaf reported on Friday.
The bodies of Johan and Mathilda, both aged 53, were found in their home in Meerstad, a new town just east of Groningen, in the early hours of Thursday morning. Their daughter, now said to be 15 not 13, was arrested shortly afterwards.
“Her father was on the ground, her mother on the bed,” one girl who claimed to have seen the photos, told the paper. “There was blood and a knife.” Other pupils at the Vaklyceum Montessori school also told the paper they had seen the images or knew someone who had.
The Telegraaf says it has been told by the girl’s classmates that her behaviour had become strange, and that she was struggling with her identity.
Some pupils said she wanted to be addressed as “he” while others said she identified as a dog. Some also said she had not been at school for a long period .
Neighbours described the family as loving and kind but told the AD they had seen the girl running down the street late at night, or sitting silently on top of the roof of the shed. “She was always strange and kept herself to herself,” neighbour Heleen told the paper.
The family home, the Telegraaf said, had recently been sold for almost €500,000 and they were planning to move to another, bigger, property in the area.
As yet it is unclear how the police were alerted to the deaths. Locals have suggested the girl herself made the call but others have said it was a school friend who received the photos via WhatsApp.
The police have not yet issued any further statements about their investigation but told the Telegraaf any photos of relevance to the killing should be sent to them.
Culture › Re: 1988 Article About Homosexual Prostitutes In Kano (Throwback) by BlackViper(op): 1:03pm On Jul 02
I doubt .!!!