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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Ope Adetayo

In Nigeria’s troubled north, a bustling nightlife lives with a morality police and insecurity

Nigeria Nightlife - (Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

Multicolored strobe lights sweep across a dance floor soon to throng with sweaty revelers and shrilling voices singing along to Afrobeats in a nightclub that is thriving despite being in one of northern Nigeria’s most deeply conservative states.

As the DJ prepared his set and attendants arranged bottles of expensive liquor on tables, Vincent Tabat joined those streaming into the venue, which is one of a handful along a street in Sokoto state.

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