A NIGERIAN diplomat has broken with long-established protocol to criticise the Government’s lack of leadership on the issue of growing racism in Ireland.

FEARS of a regional military intervention grew yesterday in Ivory Coast following a threat from West African neighbours to force out incumbent leader Laurent Gbagbo if he does not soon heed international calls to step down from power.

Jim Morahan

The High Court was asked today to quash deportation orders against six Nigerian nationals who were sent home on a late-night chartered flight in April.

The Department of Foreign Affairs has expressed outrage at the death sentence handed down to a Nigerian woman who was convicted of adultery.