A TENSE silence was broken in a west Dublin graveyard yesterday when cries of sorrow went up as a the embalmed body of schoolboy Toyosi Shitta-bey was lowered into the ground.

INTEGRATION Minister Mary White is to meet the Nigerian ambassador and review the laws on racism in the wake of the death of an African schoolboy.

RESIDENTS of a west Dublin suburb turned out in large numbers yesterday to pay tribute to a young Nigerian student who died in a stabbing incident at the weekend.

A NIGERIAN mother battling deportation with her two daughters intends fighting claims by gardaí that she faked the death of her first child, saying the infant died from female genital mutilation.