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Pamela Adie is nominated for the first Mary Chirwa Award for Courageous Leadership

Nigeria’s Gender and LGBTQIA+ activist and documentarist, Pamela Adie, is among the ten shortlisted nominees to receive the very first Mary Chirwa Award for Courageous Leadership, as announced by the

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The Minority Report meets Pamela Adie

‘If I were talking to myself, my younger self now, I think what I would say is, “It’s not worth it. It’s not going to end well. It never ends

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The Equality Hub Premieres “Under The Rainbow”

The Equality Hub officially released its long-awaited documentary film, Under The Rainbow, at a private screening event in Lagos, Nigeria, on Friday, June 28, 2019, as part of its efforts

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Pamela Adie’s Documentary, ‘Under The Rainbow’, Finally Gets A Release Date

The Equality Hub’s Under The Rainbow is going to premiere on Friday, June 28, 2019, thanks to support from the British Deputy High Commission. And in time for Pride Month

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Pamela Adie claps back at Reno Omokri with a teachable moment

“Reno Omokri subscribes to an outdated, ignorant, intellectually lazy and simplistic notion that HIV/AIDS is a homosexual disease.” This is basically how LGBT activist, Pamela Adie summed up the education

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“The Dangers LGBTQ People Face In Nigeria Is No Joking Matter.” Pamela Adie slams Cool FM Nigeria over its homophobia

Yesterday (February 11), Pamela Adie took to twitter to call out radio station, Cool FM, on the stunning show of ignorance and prejudice presenters of the Good Morning Nigeria show

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“Nigerian Media Don’t Report Positive News About The LGBT.” Pamela Adie Observes

When 57 boys were arrested in Lagos in August last year – an arrest that led to the infamous “they didn’t caught me” comic moment that took the social media

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“We Must Recognise That Our Words Have Power.” Pamela Adie Offers Lessons To Be Learned From The Kevin Hart Oscar Mess | GLAAD Hoped It Would Be A “Teachable Moment”

Following Kevin Hart’s stepdown from being an Oscar host for the 2019 Academy Awards, an incidence that came after homophobic social media postings Hart made nearly a decade ago were

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EXCLUSIVE! Pamela Adie’s Official Statement Regarding Her Federal High Court Suit Against Corporate Affairs Commission

In 2017, Pamela Adie founded Lesbian Equality and Empowerment Initiative (LEEI), a nonprofit organization whose objective is to advocate for the fundamental human rights of female sexual minorities in Nigeria.

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“We Will Never Stop Fighting.” Pamela Adie Says After Dismissal Of Her Suit To Register Lesbian Association In Nigeria By Federal High Court

LGBT rights activist and co-founder of The Equality Hub, Pamela Adie has emerged to declare her unwavering determination to fight Nigeria’s homophobia through the judicial system, in the wake of