Thursday, January 16, 2014
Police begin clampdown on gay people as 38 homosexuals are arrested in Bauchi
Jonathan announces Tukur’s resignation, produces letter from pocket
The National Executive Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party has just accepted the resignation of the National Chairman of the party, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur. President Goodluck Jonathan announced to the members of NEC that Tukur has resigned from his job. Jonathan, who brought out Tukur’s letter of resignation from his pocket, handed it over to the National Secretary of the party, Prof. Wale Oladipo. As soon as he announced the resignation, the audience clapped in acceptance. President Jonathan therefore directed the Governor of Cross Rivers State, Mr. Liyel Imoke to move the motion for the acceptance of Tukur’s resignation. Imoke appealed to Tukur not to abandon the party despite his resignation.
Nigeria anti-gay law ’ll fuel violence –UN Secretary General
United Nations’ Secretary-General Ban
Ki-moon expressed deep concern on Wednesday at a new Nigerian law that
criminalises same-sex relationships, which he fears could fuel prejudice
and violence and risks obstructing an effective HIV/AIDS response.
The bill, which contains penalties of up
to 14 years in prison and bans gay marriage, same-sex “amorous
relationships” and membership of gay rights groups, was passed by the
National Assembly last May and signed into law by President Goodluck
Jonathan on Monday.
“The Secretary-General fears that the law may fuel prejudice and violence, and notes with alarm reports that police in northern Nigeria have arrested individuals believed by the authorities to be homosexuals, and may even have tortured them,” Ban’s press office said in a statement quoted by Reuters.
We’ll change House leadership, APC Reps insist
Members of the House of Representatives,
particularly those of the All Progressives Congress caucus are bent on
changing the leadership of the House as lawmakers resume sitting on
Tuesday next week. The APC gained a slim numerical
advantage over the Peoples Democratic Party before the lawmakers
proceeded on the Christmas/New Year break on December 19. Thirty-seven former PDP members had
defected to the APC on the floor of the House, citing “division” in the
PDP as the reason for their action.
Why did Jonathan sign the gay law?
In 2013, an iconic picture of two ladies
kissing before anti-gay marriage protesters in Marseille, France, went
viral. That act of defiance before an assembly of mostly old ladies was
to demonstrate an inviolable right to private life and choice. It was
largely the fear of this sort of freedom that spurred the Nigerian
Senate to embark on pushing a bill to criminalise activities relating to
homosexuality with draconian measures.
The climax of the saga occurred on
Monday, January 13 when the Special Adviser to President Goodluck
Jonathan on Media and Publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati, announced that the
President had signed the bill into law.
Corruption worsened under OBJ–Bakare
Convener of Save Nigeria Group, Pastor
Tunde Bakare, on Wednesday said former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s
administration raised the bar of corruption in the country,
notwithstanding the ex-President’s “supposed achievements” in office. Bakare spoke in Lagos as the guest
lecturer at the 10th Chief Gani Fawehinmi Annual Lecture/Symposium,
organised by the Ikeja Branch of the Nigerian Bar Association. The event, with the theme, ‘Nigeria at
centenary: A nation still in bondage?,’ was chaired by former President
of the Court of Appeal, Justice Ayo Salami (retd.).
Wednesday, January 15, 2014
Check out ways to prevent kidney Failure
Now, more than ever, Nigerians are becoming more conscious about protecting and preserving their kidneys. Every year, several Nigerians suffer kidney problems and thousands die or require regual dialysis or kidney transplants. Factors ranging from bad diet choices and habits like smoking and obesity, among others are linked to an increased risk for kidney disease.
The Man who hasn't had a bath in over 6 decades.
This Iranian man you see above hasn't had a shower for 60 years. Daily Mail reports that 80 year old Iranian Amou Haji hasn't washed for 60 years because he believes being clean will make him sick, and his favourite food is rotten porcupine.
NSA implanted software on thousands of computers to spy on Russia, Mexico, other US allies Read
The US intelligence agency has covertly installed software on nearly 100,000 computers worldwide, allowing it to spy on them, and recruit them for possible cyber attacks, a news report said late Tuesday. Most were installed by the National Security Agency via network connections, but the agency has devised a way of reaching unconnected computers by means of radio waves, the New York Times reported, citing NSA documents, computer experts and officials.
Nigerians Broke My Relationship With Angelo - Beverly Osu
"Forgive Me, It's My First Time" - Man, 62, Pleads After Molesting 7-Yr-Old Girl
Mr. Ankwuli admitted that he had molested the 7-year-old victim and he pleaded with the court to be lenient with him as it was his first offence.
TB Joshua Talks about Same-Sex Marriage Ban
As news of the controversial law banning same-sex marriage continues to create headlines worldwide after it was signed into law by President Goodluck Jonathan, the renowned spiritual head of the Synagogue church in Lagos, Prophet TB Joshua has spoken out on the contentious issue.
“Judge not, so that you will not be judged,” Joshua began, citing Matthew 7:1 for Scriptural backing. “We should talk to people to be saved and not to die. I mean, we should talk salvation, not condemnation. The Bible is my standard.”
Asian anti-Black racism at an embassy in Nigeria
Anti-Black racism from Arabs is nothing new, but anti-Black racism from East and South-East Asians is not what most Nigerians expect. For an Asian to call us "monkeys" is beyond preposterous. For Asians to shout and yell at us, even to the point of physically assaulting a woman in her 40s is unbelievable. As you may be aware, Nigerians thrive on respect, as do Asians. Older people, Asian and African, command respect, yet to my non-Nigerian colleagues this does not translate across nationalities. I see that they have respect for each other, but literally zero, zilch, none, for older Nigerian staff. I know a bit of the language, so I can understand when they are insulting us in our presence, calling us "bastards."
Action Speaks: 168 arrested for just being gay in north Nigeria
They say such persecution will increase since President Goodluck Jonathan signed legislation banning same-sex marriage and criminalizing gay clubs and associations. Dorothy Aken'Ova is executive director of Nigeria's International Center for Reproductive Health and Sexual Rights. She said Tuesday the new law, already being dubbed the "Jail the Gays" law, will endanger and even criminalize programs fighting HIV-AIDS in the gay community.
More lives will undoubtedly be missing if Jonathan continues ruling Nigeria – Tinubu
The statement, released on Monday by Tinubu’s media aide, Sunday Dare, reads in full:
Woman sets herself, hubby to death to prevent him from picking new wife
“On entering the room, his wife poured fuel on him, lit a match and held him tightly to ensure that he did no escape from the evil plot,” a villager recounted.
US Condemns Nigeria's Same-sex Marriage Ban
Secretary of State John Kerry said the United States was “deeply concerned” by Nigeria’s new law which “dangerously restricts freedom of assembly, association and expression for all Nigerians.”
Kerry said the act “is inconsistent with Nigeria’s international legal obligations and undermines the democratic reforms and human rights protections enshrined in its 1999 constitution.”
Ex president OBJ calls for prayers over 2015 elections
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on
Tuesday urged Nigerians to keep fasting and praying ahead of the 2015
elections, saying that only God has power to appoint leaders. Obasanjo said this when the National
President of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria, Dr. Felix Omobude,
paid him a courtesy visit in his Abeokuta, Ogun State, home.
According to him, Nigeria is God’s
project and as such the nation will overcome all its challenges no
matter how insurmountable they can be.
Gunmen shoot Pres. Jonathan’s official photographer
President Goodluck Jonathan’s official photographer, Mr. Callistus Ewelike, was on Monday night shot by unknown gunmen in Abuja.
Ewelike, a photojournalist with the News Agency of Nigeria is attached to the State House, Abuja, and he is currently acting as the President’s official photographer.
The father of two was reportedly shot at
a close range in front of his house in Nyanya in the outskirts of the
Federal Capital Territory, between 10pm and 11pm.
He was said to be returning to his house
after filing the photographs he took during Jonathan’s visit to Shape
Community in the FCT, where the President inaugurated the Operation
Light Up Rural Nigeria Project when the incident happened.
Tukur Finally resigns
Embattled National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, has resigned, THE PUNCH learnt.
A senior member of the divided National Working Committee of the party, who spoke with our correspondent in Abuja on Wednesday, said President Goodluck Jonathan will inform the meeting of the National Caucus of the party tonight in Abuja about the development.
With the resignation, Tukur has escaped being suspended from the party by the members of the NWC if he had refused to resign.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)