{"id":348,"date":"2024-08-09T19:01:13","date_gmt":"2024-08-09T19:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/09\/nigerian-police-investigate-killing-of-trans-tiktoker-abuja-area-mama\/"},"modified":"2024-08-09T19:01:13","modified_gmt":"2024-08-09T19:01:13","slug":"nigerian-police-investigate-killing-of-trans-tiktoker-abuja-area-mama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/09\/nigerian-police-investigate-killing-of-trans-tiktoker-abuja-area-mama\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian police investigate killing of trans TikToker Abuja Area Mama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph-primary-core-light\">            Police in the Nigerian capital Abuja are investigating the killing of a trans TikToker known as Abuja Area Mama after her body was found beside a highway.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph-primary-core-light\">            On TikTok, where she identified as female and openly described herself as a sex worker, Abuja Area Mama styled herself as a \u201ccross-dresser and queen of the street.\u201d    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph-primary-core-light\">            A police spokesperson in the city, Josephine Adeh, said in a statement that \u201can unidentified lady was seen lying motionless along Katampe \u2013 Mabushi expressway\u201d on Thursday and \u201cpreliminary investigations revealed that the individual was a man fully dressed in female clothing with no means of identification on him.\u201d    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph-primary-core-light\">            Same-sex relations are banned in Nigeria and gay and trans people often face harrasment.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph-primary-core-light\">            Abuja Area Mama had previously faced attacks and harassment. In a recent video on social media, she described being stabbed by an unidentified man.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph-primary-core-light\">            A day before her body was found, she made a post on Instagram saying she was \u201cgetting ready to go and see my boyfriend.\u201d    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph-primary-core-light\">            Abuja Area Mama was candid about the risks of being a sex worker.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph-primary-core-light\">            \u201cYou could leave home at night to hustle and not return the next morning,\u201d she said while featuring as a guest on a YouTube podcast four months ago.    <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on cnn.com<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police in the Nigerian capital Abuja are investigating the killing of a trans TikToker known as Abuja Area Mama after her body was found beside a highway. On TikTok, where she identified as female and openly described herself as a sex worker, Abuja Area Mama styled herself as a \u201ccross-dresser and queen of the street.\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":349,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}