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President Hollande signs bill into law after Constitutional Council dismisses legal challenge by opposition party.
French President Francois Hollande has signed a gay marriage and adoption bill into law, a day after the country's Constitutional Council threw out a legal challenge by the conservative opposition.
Hollande, trying to turn the page on months of bitter opposition to the measures, said it was "time to respect the law and the Republic".
The Constitutional Council approved the bill on Friday, which was also the International Day Against Homophobia.
The ruling cleared the way for France to become the 14th country to legalise same-sex marriage.
French deputies approved the bill in parliament last month after a several days of often stormy debate.
Recent polls suggest that opinion in France is fairly evenly split on both gay marriage and adoption.
Conservative challenge
The main opposition UMP party of former President Nicolas Sarkozy immediately challenged the move on constitutional grounds.
Friday's statement by the Constitutional Council, however, said same-sex marriage "did not run contrary to any constitutional principles", and that it did not infringe on "basic rights or liberties or national sovereignty".
The council did say that gay marriage did not automatically mean the "right to a child": the "interest of the child" would be the overriding factor in such cases, it ruled.
Reacting to the ruling Friday, Jean-Francois Cope, UMP party chief, told TF1 television: "It is a decision that I regret, but that I respect."
'Celebration time'
Hollande had given warning that he would brook no resistance.
"I will ensure that the law applies across the whole territory, in full, and I will not accept any disruption of these marriages," he said.
Gay rights groups hailed the decision as a watershed.
"Now it's celebration time," said Nicolas Gougain, spokesman of the LGBT association representing the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities.
Gay rights watchdog SOS Homophobie added: "Our country has taken a great step forward today although it's regrettable that it was taken in a climate of bad faith and homophobic violence."
The issue of gay marriage has divided France, which is officially secular but overwhelmingly Catholic. Protests against the bill drew hundreds of thousands, with a handful of hard-core protesters clashing with police.
Violent protest
Late on Friday, between 200 and 300 protesters gathered in central Paris to denounce the ruling backing the bill and calling on Hollande to resign.
One police officer was injured after a flammable liquid was thrown in his face.
Earlier, a group of bare-chested men wearing white masks staged their own protest against gay marriage on one of the bridges over the Seine. They call themselves the "Hommen" - a riposte to the bare-breasted feminist protesters known as the "Femmen".
Opponents of the law plan another major protest rally in Paris on May 26.
As the French bill got the green light to become law, a report by the European Union's Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) highlighted the problems that gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people still face across Europe.
It said two-thirds of the community were still afraid to show their sexuality in public - and a quarter had been victims of physical or verbal attacks.
I cant even believe what im reading...what re they seeking for from the same sex... what is the joy... what is the benefit...wish somebody will answer all those questions for me!

Source: http://www.weyab.com/2013/05/shock-france-legalises-same-sex-marriage.html

4chi: These fools certainly do not represent the yorubas. Unlike our " noisy neighbours" we don't whine and shout marginalization like the simple minded folks are wont to . So, shut the heck up we don't need federal government appointment to survive. That is not however to say that the drunken fisherman has not bitten the fingers that fed him. He is in for the meltdown of his life from next year. He doesn't know who he is messing with...shoeless.clueless prikkk....

WHATS YOUR POINT...YOU SEEMS LOST HERE

gboss4sure: That man should go and sit for shit.... The truth is that if some so called graduates speaks English your stomach will turn not to talk of these small small gurls wyning their small nyash around looking to get dicked and wont read their books.

guy did you see how you are disgracing your self on nairaland... i told you as a friend not to open nairaland account that you should open 2go account but you refused... you see, because of your Englishes "Graduates speaks" FG have summon seun

[quote author=Al-hasan]I was outrageously FLABBERGASTED when I saw my score. If JAMB knew that there was no flaw, let them call all the aggrieved Students to come and air their grievances. JAMB is cantankerous, Celecolomanic, Costonboflaw, ill-managed Exam Board. Jamb 218 is not mine . My unmitigated Swots in d home please help me. I will not agree.Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!![/quote]hope this is not what you wrote that day instead of shading A, B ,C ,D if so, u deserve 023

Alamen001: Yes, the papers leaked and candidates were changing the paper type given to them to that of the type leaked. Unknown to them, JAMB has a database of paper type of each candidate. Hence, JAMB marked them by the paper type allocated.

hahahahah what did you know? did u work in jamb office? which distinct data base do they have? what did you know about computer talk of data base? once you finish answering this questions, i will call you puuuuuuuuuu! for your information, jamb have no data base for distinct marking with respect to type... i know 89% about jamb and how they operate... FG is behind jamb in doing this to innocent student... i laugh you wont understand poor brain

[quote author=Al-hasan]I strongly support it because an adage says," he who has no wife should not bother about having an in-law." Meaning to say: clear conscience fears no accusation. I knew what I chose as answers and I knew what Jamb gave me (218). I chose answers with d knowledge of the rules of Grammar. Now, JAMB gave me 59 in English where I intensified efforts as if Dibu and his wife wud be the invigilators. I can prove my answers with the rules governing the QUESTIONS given to me. I had already counted my chickens that no matter how crazy, belligerent, combative, pugnacious JAMB is, I wud score 75 in English, Literature 70, Govt 70(63 given) No!!!!!![/quote]chaiiiii with this your grammar, i give you english in jamb 91...

chacha3: lol nawao is it only s.ex that makes one a sinner?

hahaha i knw but dat one fit attract koboko nd multiple sins record

And plsss for the main time no s.ex.....b holy for now so dat uu wil make heaven if anytin happen

Newly crowned Europa League champions Chelsea have faced a lot of criticism over the past year, but now they have something to celebrate.
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And unpopular coach Rafa Benitez can now leave with his head held high.

Newly crowned Europa League champions Chelsea have faced a lot of criticism over the past year, but now they have something to celebrate.

And unpopular coach Rafa Benitez can now leave with his head held high.
Get more videos herehttp://www.weyab.com/2013/05/videochelsea-enter-history-books.html

prosper606: Second to comment...Dancing Azonto...

U NO GO BORNO?

Vicky001: Can i exceed d num of checking if its stil writing 'biometric error'??

NO JUST THAT 3

babyosisi: what a timing!!
Are they daft?
Can't they observe their environment to know that there is a time and season for everything

THANK YOU MY BROTHER, SOMETIMES THEY BEHAVE WITHOUT REASONING... WE UNDERSTAND THEM , BUT THIS IS NOT THE RIGHT TIME

The group appealed to the president to address the ‘lopsidedness’ in federal appointments.

A group, the National Coalition of Yoruba Youth Council, NCYYC, has urged President Goodluck Jonathan to address what it termed as “obvious” marginalization of the Yoruba race into federal appointments.

Rising from its emergency meeting in Akure, the Ondo State capital, the Coalition said the Yoruba race is presently marginalized in the appointments into key positions at the federal level.

In a communiqué issued at the end its emergency meeting in Akure, Ondo State and signed by Jimoh Akeem, President, and Kelvin Babalola, Secretary, the group said the Yorubas have been “relegated to the back door” by Jonathan’s administration. The group therefore appealed to the president to urgently address the lopsidedness in the federal appointments to ensure even sharing of appointments among the different regions in the country.

The communiqué reads, “It’s sad that as a race, the Yorubas have been relegated under this present government. The marginalistion is obvious in board and parastatal appointments. To make the matter worse, the race is also being marginalized in employment and social infrastructure distribution.

“We are appealing to President Goodluck Jonathan to urgently address this irregularity and ensure that each region is well represented in his cabinet, federal boards and parastatals,” it said.

The group also appealed to the federal government to set in motion necessary machinery to start the exploration of vast deposits of bitumen in Ondo State to stop the over reliance on petroleum. It noted that exploration of bitumen would create jobs for the teeming Nigerian youth and liberalise the nation’s economic base.
for the first time i hear yorubas speak.... a new dawn, what did you think?

Source: http://www.weyab.com/2013/05/group-laments-marginalisation-of-yoruba.html

The State Government did not disclose the present salary of the Sultan.

The Sokoto State Government has raised the salary of the Sultan of Sokoto, Sa’ad Abubakar, and other chiefs by about 60 per cent.

Jabbi Kilgori, the Sokoto State Commissioner for Environment, made this known to newsmen at the end of the State Executive Council meeting in Sokoto on Wednesday.

Mr. Kilgori identified the beneficiaries as all councillors in the Sultanate, the 63 district heads, all village heads as well as their scribes.

The current salary being enjoyed by the Sultan and the traditional rulers in the 63 districts of the 23 loc

According to Mr. Kilgori, the gesture is in accordance with importance attached to the traditional institutions in the state as the custodians of culture, religion and tradition.

” What they were receiving hitherto as personal monthly emoluments was nothing to write home about and this increment is a morale booster to them,” he said.

The commissioner said that traditional rulers were now being given bigger roles contrary to what obtained before.

” This is what we have started in Sokoto to restore the lost glory of the traditional institutions in the state,” he added.
IM NOT AGAINST IT BUT MY QUESTION IS WHERE IS THE MONEY COMING FROM?

http://www.weyab.com/2013/05/sokoto-increases-sultans-salary-others.html

PLEASE MODERATOR PUT THE FIRST PIX AT THE TOP AND THE 2ND AT THE LAST . THANKS
The competition will hold from June 15 to 30.

World football governing body, FIFA, has appointed 10 referees and 20 assistant referees for next month’s FIFA Confederations Cup, Brazil 2013.

One major name on the list is England’s Howard Webb, who is one of the four European referees for the completion.

Haimoudi Djamel of Algeria is the only African referee for the competition.

The competition kicks off in Brasilia on June 15, and for the first time in a FIFA completion, goal-line technology will be used.

According to Head of Refereeing of the global football body, Massimo Busacca, ‘For almost two years, the candidates have been under my guidance and supervision and the Committee is sending only the best match official teams in the world to this important competition.”

“These officials are all potential candidates for next year’s flagship football event in Brazil, and such high-profile tournaments are key to their preparation.
“Like their other colleagues on the open list of 52 overall candidates for 2014, they can officiate matches at any level. We are convinced that they will deliver the quality we strive for,” Busacca said.

The referees head said, “We prepare like a football team, like players do, paying special attention to uniformity and consistency, fair play, protecting players and the tactical approach. Everything must come together now, in this very important competition, which has some of the best players and a world-class line-up of teams.”

He said the referees will work mainly on the tactical and technical aspects, saying, “This very important preparation is needed so that we can anticipate and prevent any possible issue, with one of our main goals being to ensure that we are in the right place at the right time.”

Nigeria, Africa Champions, are in Group B of the eight team event alongside World and European Champions, Spain.
CLICK ON THE 2ND PIX TO VIEW CLEARLY THE LIST OR VISIT THE SOURCE http://www.weyab.com/2013/05/fifa-appoints-howard-webb-nine-other.html

Ngwakwe: Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Judia and Samaria, Nazareth are all Jewish Cities in Ancient times.

Remember, the Arab massacre of the native Jews of Bethlehem in 1929.

Again, Palestine is not a country but a geographical location administered by the Turks for 400 years.

The Arab Palestinians are not a distinct people but Arabs who migrated to the area and of course some Jews who may have been converted to Islam. They have no historic cities, kings, language, currency, artifacts etc that can attest to the ownership of the Land.

The Bible and Koran manuscripts have given a brief and detailed history of Jewish presence in the Area.

Moreover, Jordan, Lebanon were also created in those days but are not in dispute because they are all majority Arabs and Muslims.

The Arab / Israeli Conflict is majorly about difference in religion than difference in race.

If the Jews become minority and Arab majority in Israel today, they will pass their sharia law and force the Jews to live under their dictate. Then the Arab Palestinians will be happy but it's not going to happen.

The solution should be to settle those Palestinian refuges to be citizens of the country they were born then let Gaza be a country or join Egypt and West Bank Area A & B be joined to their brothers in Jordan and be renamed Arab Palestine.

Nice I can remember the massacre, The Hebron. massacre refers to the killing of sixty-seven Jews(including 23 college students) on 24 August 1929 in Hebron, then part of Mandatory Palestine, by Arabs incited to violence by false rumours that Jews were massacring Arabs inJerusalem and seizing control of Muslim holy places. Many of the 435 Jews who survived were hidden by local Arab families. Soon after, all Hebron's Jews were evacuated by the British authorities. Many returned in 1931, but almost all left again during1936–1939. The massacre formed part of the1929 Palestine riots, in which a total of 133 Jews were killed by Arabs, and brought the centuries-old Jewish presence in Hebron to an end.
It led to the re-organization and development of the Jewish paramilitary organization, the Haganah, which later became the nucleus of theIsrael Defense Forces. In the metanarrative of Zionism, according to Michelle Campos, the event became 'a central symbol of Jewish persecution at the hands of bloodthirsty Arabs.'and was "engraved in the national psyche of Israeli Jews", particularly those who settled in Hebron after 1967. Things can never move well in isreal because Palestinians are accusing them of enslaving them in Their own land and isrealite , the Jews are not even happy when remembering the past , the hatred from Arabs , each day they wish they wish they can destroy all Arabians, each day they remember the wickedness of Arabs toward Jews... But for me I think everyone should go his own way and forget the past....give the palestinine what they need...let gaza worth a country, merge many things if posible ....my fear is even UN, US, ARAB LEAGUE are even confuse

Al-Nakba Series on the Palestinian 'catastrophe' of 1948 that led to dispossession and conflict that still endures.
“The Nakba did not begin in 1948. Its origins lie over two centuries ago….”

So begins this four-part series on the ‘nakba’, meaning the ‘catastrophe’, about the history of the Palestinian exodus that led to the first Arab-Israeli war in 1948 and the establishment of the state of Israel.

This sweeping history starts back in 1799 with Napoleon’s attempted advance into Palestine to check British expansion and his appeal to the Jews of the world to reclaim their land in league with France.

The narrative moves through the 19th century and into the 20th century with the British Mandate in Palestine and comes right up to date in the 21st century and the ongoing ‘nakba’ on the ground.

Arab, Israeli and Western intellectuals, historians and eye-witnesses provide the central narrative which is accompanied by archive material and documents, many only recently released for the first time.

For Palestinians, 1948 marks the 'Nakba' or the 'catastrophe', when hundreds of thousands were forced out of their homes.
But for Israelis, the same year marks the creation of their own state.
This series attempts to present an understanding of the events of the past that are still shaping the present.

This story starts in 1799, outside the walls of Acre in Ottoman-controlled Palestine, when an army under Napoleon Bonaparte besieged the city. It was all part of a campaign to defeat the Ottomans and establish a French presence in the region.

In search of allies, Napoleon issued a letter offering Palestine as a homeland to the Jews under French protection. He called on the Jews to ‘rise up’ against what he called their oppressors.

Napoleon’s appeal was widely publicised. But he was ultimately defeated. In Acre today, the only memory of him is a statue atop a hill overlooking the city.

Yet Napoleon’s project for a Jewish homeland in the region under a colonial protectorate did not die, 40 years later, the plan was revived but by the British.

On 19 April 1936, the Palestinians launched a national strike to protest against mass Jewish immigration and what they saw as Britain’s alliance with the Zionist movement.

The British responded with force. During the six months of the strike, over 190 Palestinians were killed and more than 800 wounded.
Wary of popular revolt, Arab leaders advised the Palestinians to end the strike.

Palestinian leaders bowed to pressure from the Arab heads of state and agreed to meet the British Royal Commission of Inquiry headed by Lord Peel.

In its report of July 1937, the Peel Commission recommended the partition of Palestine. Its report drew the frontiers of a Jewish state in one-third of Palestine, and an Arab state in the remaining two-thirds, to be merged with Transjordan.

A corridor of land from Jerusalem to Jaffa would remain under British mandate. The Commission also recommended transferring where necessary Palestinians from the lands allocated to the new Jewish state.

The Commission’s proposals were widely published and provoked heated debate.

As the Palestinian revolt continued, Britain’s response hardened. Between 1936 and 1937, the British killed over 1,000 Palestinians; 37 British military police and 69 Jews also died.

After reading the above post im still dumb on what to say, many things are still hidden, what did you think?
Dont know how to link video here, Get the video following the source.

Source:http://www.weyab.com/2013/05/al-nakba-series-on-palestinian.html

just say D bluesssssss....... feel like noding my head against all Red

fu;ck alllll reddddddddd!

for ever d blues

President Goodluck Jonathan has declared a State of Emergency in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa State.
what will i say , he did his best after reading his speech below. long live one nigeria.
http://www.weyab.com/2013/05/president-jonathan-state-of-emergency.html

She said: “The amount of women who literally come up to me on the street and say I just wanted to say thank you for highlighting what you went through I decided to get tested and unfortunately I also have the gene.
remember her mum died cause of the same cancer..get more
http://www.weyab.com/2013/05/im-over-moon-angelina-jolie-has.html

perfectcrush: Tinkin of leavin dis damn country

been looking for who to slap...go where ..come back here and take it..............

[quote author=Yoshi-Master]You guys are talking about development, and we still have policy enabling Youth Corpers to shape the minds of young students, isn't that quite insane?

Shouldn't we be looking for the best instructors for our students, and then they will turn around and say that failure rates for exams are high.

Tell me when and where the Youth Corper got his certification in teaching.[/quote]i love you...our country sometimes reason like what i dont know.... integration my foot.....

hey! for everybody im not trying to bring issues about tribe but i have to say this.....
the problem we are having in this country is north "hausa/fulani" when you talk about development. note : development never comes from government , its the basic thing in every RATIONAL being to develop its area and place of living...then goes to an extend in helping other"less privileged" develop their own area. the issue here is ,hausa/fulani make thing worst for this country, goto anambra, abia, imo , ebonyi, ph, name them, you will see many of them living in trash, living in hell, living like pigs while many of them have the money to put things in those area like ibo people do in everywhere they go. even in there own state 92% of them choose to live uncomfortable when they have the cash to put up good structures. goto abuja you see many of them wasting money on little girls while their houses are bamboo houses. how many structure do hausa/fulani put in south/south or south/east in other to increase development? how many do other people put in there place? note: whenever you are not living comfortable, you must be a disturbance, a disadvantages and a nuisance to the whole country. like me if its true, kiss my a*s if you wish me a slap

chaiiiiii thank God im up after some minutes of silence... guy your vocab and English constructions even your concord are war... please seun do what you know best on this guy

What's this one saying? Are you on drugs ? Or are you high? Seun pls do something, dnt want to see this person again

Obiagelli: I pity this Niger delta pple, when i all starts, the North will wipe you clean in just minutes, I pray the East is not caught up in the mess. I pity the innocent women and children who hasn't got any benefits from these militant and gej himself.

information reaching Us reports that JAMB has released the 1st
batch of Results for "No Biometric Verification" Candidates.
Candidates who fall into this category are hereby advised to re-
check their results to see if they are among those successful
candidates for now. Meanwhile, here are the procedures for checking
the results;
Procedures to check the JAMB UTME 2013 Results
1. Visit the official 2013 result checking website using a computer
system by visiting www.jamb.org.ng/Unifiedtme4/
2. At the right hand side of the screen, you should see a section
written "Result Checker".
3. Enter your JAMB registration number OR Scratch Card PIN or
Scratch Card Serial Number (Anyone you have).
4. Click on "Check Result" to view your result instantly!
5. You can then print the result page as evidence. If yours has not yet
been released, you are expected to check back on Wednesday.
However, if there's any development before then, weyab will
definitely keep you Posted.
Please endeavour to share your testimonies using the comment box.
We wish you the best.
Source: http://weyab.com

Many drugs for headache must b because of the person that said d below words...I think he is sick ..

Raymondenyi: Shit man, seeking relevance, he only nows he is fastly narrowing into oblivion! No one has his time; emtpy bulldog barking, he can't do nothing my brothers.

Nd pls I am born n read south south! (4rm Ph city main town) buh d difference b/w us is I am not a tribal bigot, I detest nepotism! I judge based on facts n merits, n 4rm my assesment, I cee no reason goodluck should continue as president, d man is incapacited

Toaskarity: Dang! This man has gut!! This is what I call MAN! Chai! My favorit part "The last time he was arrested, nigerians went starving" This is a fact no one can dispute nigeria govt is what it is today because of their land!! Fact!!
What will nigeria look like if south south was just a another country. Im no ijaw man either do my village have oyel but I love ppl like this! violence is only what that country respond to and He got it!! This is what I call one man squad, if nigeria wants to get starved especially the parasites!! then arrest him . This time around not only will oil drilling slow down but will be closed DOWN! May the good God bless asari not the one that dash ppl virgins.

Wow best thing I ever read on this site..I love u man ..... Feel like kissing u.....feel like taking u home.....if they try to touch that man , the north wil know that movie somtimes happen LIVE!

VoodooDoll: This chap is a coward seeking to feast on the blood of the innocent and the children. This is what happens when an ingrate is given the keys to power.

But I think he is trying to show his anger towards north...don't you think north deserve more than this?