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Brilliance9000: Makes perfect sense.

Your interpretation and his makes absolutely no sense. You can't be breaking laws under the disguise of your religious beliefs. Yes, you can practice whatever religion you want but as a country, we still have laws. It’s illegal to get married to anyone younger than 18 years old and the Nigerian constitution doesn't give a F what your Quran or bible says. What’s the point of making laws if anyone including this senator can decide to do whatever they want based on their religious beliefs?? How about I tell you that my "bible" says its okay to murder someone if I don't like them? Does that make it okay to Kill someone??

Hye-Bits:
Thanks for the brilliantly driven unpopular point of yours about our culture. The issue with people like you stem from the fastidious position you accord western way of life. You really don't see democracy as movement with religious and cultural movement of its own. You may fail to understand that you are one of its followers or apologists, in any case. Come to terms brother, a society fail to recognise some people rights in POLYGAMY but champion rights for the GAY. What do you say about this?

Would you let your sisters get into a polygamist relationship? I bet you wouldn't. so STFU.
Polygamy is a thing of the past and you sure don't need the "west" or your "God" to tell you that!!!!

Alot of folks on here keep talking about the west should legalize polygamy. Polygamy was abolished as a way to protect women's right. African men married these young women and solely used them as breeders without considering anything else. These woman were never taken care of by these men. All the men cared about was how many male children he could get from the woman and as soon as she got older or couldn't "make" him anymore sons, he resorts to marrying another teenager. It's insane and troubling to see anyone in this modern world even consider polygamy.
My grandfather was married to 8 women and I tell you, it wasn't pretty. I would never consent to any of my sisters getting married to a man that's still legally married and I bet most of you on here wouldn't either.

So lets just stick to the point which is Gay rights in Nigeria!!!

abbakacici: my friend have Ghana and Nigeria passports, he has china visa in his passport and uk visa in Nigerian passport, he is currently in uk as a student and he plan to travel to chine from there so the question is can he use his Ghanian passport to travel from uk without uk visa if not can he use his Nigerian passport at port of exit at uk, with chinese visa

Yes he can travel on both passports. Use the Ghanaian passport with the Chinese visa to enter china and show the Nigerian passport with the UK visa when entering the UK. There's absolutely nothing illegal about it.

Jollof: Like me, I bet you've all run around with your bathing towels wrapped above your shoulders like a cape and pretended to be Superman (and if you haven't then it's never too late!). Ever since I was a little brat I wanted to take to the skies. Air travel is the next best thing and I'm always looking forward to having a glass plastic cup of ice-cold apple juice which always tastes better at 10,000 feet. What could possibly disrupt this moment of long-awaited bliss? Cue the Nigerians... On my recent return trip from New York alone I encountered 7 annoying things Nigerians did on the plane:

1. Securing beds...in Economy Class! There's a game Nigerian passengers play whenever they're on-board a semi-full airplane - It's kind of similar to Musical Chairs...but without the music. Passengers snub the seats assigned to them and scout for a stretch of three to four empty seats before take-off. Handbags and other luggage items are strategically placed on empty seats in the hope for that Business Class experience - pathetic.

2. Making dramatic Nollywood scenes. Whoever said 'Rules are meant to be broken' must have been a Nigerian. We're pretty damn good at breaking rules...into smithereens, just for good measure. There was one woman sat at the front of economy class with her less-than-a-year-old baby. She put her baby down on the empty seat next to her when the seat belt light was off (not sure if that's proper in the first place but I'll let her off on that one). The moment the seat belt light was back on, however, one of the air hostesses called her to order and told her to strap her baby in place - RED ALERT! RED ALERT! MAY DAY! MAY DAY! You knew from the way the irritated mother turned her neck with that 'oh-no-you-didn't' expression all over her face that cabin pressure was under serious threat. Needless today she told the air hostess to mind her own business - ironically, that's what the air-hostess was trying to do in the first place...Safety of passengers...DUH! I can't remember if the thud I heard later on was due to turbulence or because the baby had rolled off the chair...

3. Taking pictures. You can imagine trying to enjoy a good book when suddenly the corner of your eye picks up the flash photography of some newbie whose obviously hell-bent on convincing everyone back in Nigeria that he/she indeed travel abroad. Newsflash! There may be people with photosensitive epilepsy on-board or nearby pilots wondering if there is a terrorist hijacking, with one unfortunate Nigerian who decided to break one simple rule 'DON'T MOVE!' (go figure!)

4. Farting. It's bad enough you left your assigned seat at the front and decided to come behind me and stretch yourself across four empty seats. Now you're so generous as to share your flatulence with me in small doses of ammonia-laced farts...not a one-off...periodic discharges which could catch choke me unawares if I dare yawn. FYI, avoid fizzy drinks on the plane if you know you can't handle your abdominal tract like few pros among us.

5. Drink to stupor. Is it the sheer pettiness of wanting to get one's money's worth that would make a passenger drink like a fish? (Remember, its Nigerians we're talking about here). Of course, it's not the drinking that bothers me but the mindless banter and laughter at completely 'unfunny' things that drives me up the Berlin wall (just like that - after a couple of drinks you'd be in stitches when you read 'drive me up the berlin wall').

6. Leaving toilets unlocked. Common sense consistently fails to prevail when most Nigerians use the airline's restrooms. It all boils down to refusing to acknowledge the instructions/directions carefully displayed all around them. It's quite simple - you enter the restroom and close it behind you. Right there on door is a slide lock which denotes 'Slide left to lock and right to open'. Why wouldn't I be interested in making sure that no one accidentally sees my 'bits'? Didn't they notice the green 'vacant' or the red 'occupied' sign before entering the lavatory? At my last count I've walked in on 3 unfortunate passengers who forgot to lock behind (but they all did once I exposed them...makes you wonder, eh?).

7. Sitting ovation. I'm not sure if you can relate but you're nearing your flight destination and as soon as the plane lands successfully passengers around you start to clap until virtually everyone joins in. Why are they doing this, you ask? beats me - for landing safely or for not crashing into the deep blue sea or for getting their money's worth after usurping the mini bar...I dunno. The clapping is cheesy in my opinion. I'd much prefer passengers go one by one to shake the pilot(s) for a job well done plane well-landed.

And coming in at a surprise number 8 is Irregular exercise. Make no mistake about it, Nigerians are terrified about premature death, more so than the average civilian (if that makes any sense). I've seen the most bizarre repetitions performed from kicking mid-air to punching only your left arm over the seat head in the same direction. Deep Vein thrombosis is no laughing matter so I guess all I have to do is close my eyes next time if I don't want to behold seemingly amateurish 'Kung-fu'.

See you on the next flight and God help you if you're sitting next to me, lol.

Because you hold a US passport doesn't mean you don't stink. You were probably stinking up the whole plane. Poor girl had to put up with your ass. You are just very very ignorant.

porka: There are also many polygamous family that have done well for themselves and are the envy of the society.

Hatred, jealousy, vengeance and all sorts of evil calculations are human tendencies, they occur in every society irrespective of the form marriage, they are not exclusive to polygamous setting.

BTW polygamy is really not Africa specific, there are groups in North America who are into it. Mitt Romney's grandparents migrated to Mexico because of polygamy.

Have you asked yourself why his family migrated to Mexico where polygamy is tolerated Because the Americans were too smart to tolerate that nonsense.

porka: 1) Are you a polygamist?

2) If Yes, did you go into polygamy to "degrade" women?

3) Do you know that there are Harvard/Oxford educated Nigerians/Africans in polygamous marriages? Are they being degraded as well?

4) Do you know what is called CULTURE and TRADITION?

5) Do you bother to study African cultures and traditions before you jumped into sensitive issues like despicable practices like homosexuality?

6) Do you know it is better to leave us Africans alone this time than think/plan any enslavement and colonialistic moves?

7) Do you know we are better prepared than the last time to resist any attempts to enslave us through forceful homosexuality messages?

Do you know this stupid homosexuality messages being forced on Africans cannot be attempted elsewhere? China, Russia, The Vatican, India, Italy etc?

9) I implore you Mr Kent, take your message back home to your country. It's dead on arrival.

Don't forget slave masters were also educated at Harvard and oxford so Your whole analogy doesn't hold water. You need to sit back and think about the crap you just wrote. You are still living in the medieval ages where you think you can you have as many women and young girls as you can because "tradition" says its okay. You need to let go of that archaic mentality or you might never make it in this modern world of ours. I bet you wouldn't let any of your sisters get married to a polygamist for very obvious reasons.
Folks like you are exactly what's holding Nigeria and Nigerian women back!!! Get some common sense, education, and embrace the modern society.

naijababe: Like seriously This nucca's got jokes sha

I'm glad to know u got sense enough to agree with me.
Thanks

naijababe: Whatever gave you the idea that there's force involved?!

seriously you must be living in some bubble.

naijababe: You are talking a lot of shite for someone trying to come across as intelligent!

And u don't think its degrading forcing women to be married to thesame man?

inufele2: Fair enough but for your info I'm a confirmed traditionalist. However, I don't hate oyinbos neither did I hate homosexuals, in fact my former manager is one and he is kind to a fault and a complete gentleman. Having said that I do no agree with you that all polygamy marriages are forced especially in Nigeria, may be some but on many occasions women are willing participants. I do not intend to be a polygamist though and can never be one.

And there's a reason why you wouldn't get into a polygamous relationship. Because you are a smart, education, strong black woman. Only if we had more women like you. There's absolutely no reason in this modern world that we live in for a woman to be in such a relationship. Polygamy is a way of degrading women and way to see them more as a commodity than an actual human that they are. I'm a guy but I feel very strongly about women's rights and Gay rights if you have't figured that out yet.

inufele2: Abeg pack well jor! Just a little sentence which was not even addressed to you you are now hyperventilating?
Who told you I hate oyinbo? Did my comment suggest such? Also who told you I'm a xtian? You sat down somewhere and started making assumptions about someone you met in a faceless online forum, how daft could that be?

Again, read before you reply. I said "I bet" you are christian which means I have no clue what your religion is but there is a very high probability that you might be christian since a majority of folks that post on here happen to be christian.

inufele2: Thank you! To some people anything Oyinbo is right while they see many of our culture as either inferior or absurd, this is what I called slave mentality.

Slave mentality? If you absolutely do not want to be associated with "oyibo", why in the world are u not back in your village living in a hut?? Why do you think you have a right to basic human rights? You do because "oyibo" has made u understand that as a human, you have the right to basic human rights. You can criticize oyibo all you want but I bet everyday you get up in the morning, all you think about is how Nigeria can get to the standard of any of the developed nations in the world which happens to be mostly "oyibo" countries.
I bet you are christian and as far as I know, that is totally following "oyibo's" religion.
Think before you write your non-sense on here.

My point: This is not about 'oyobi" but more about Nigerian's that are much more educated today!!

MusicCafe: You wanted to sound enlightened but you ended up showing your contempt for a differing opinion and you called yourself "enlightened". Just how enlightened are you? I hope you have sisters at home who have largely remained unmarried?

In your thinking, our forefathers married many women to enslave them? what a reasoning? Perhaps, if you have said " Our forefathers married many women for economic reasons, I would have agreed with you. So what's wrong with legalizing polygamy, if you can legalize sodomy? How many women in polygamy marriage were forced into it? I think we should look critically at the merits and demerits of issue before issuing fatwas! Every mad man has his logic, that's exactly what you have demonstrated with your inane reasoning.

You must be living in a bubble. Most women in polygamous relationships in Africa were in fact, forced into the relationship by their families for various reasons!!. You must be naive to believe that this isn't infact the case.

Go look up the definition of "enslaving someone" and using them for "economic reasons" and then u come respond to the post. U pretty much are agreeing with me on the enslaving comment.

coogar: he's a faggöt of circumstance!
the poor lad is just using this angle to escape deportation! uk authorities already know faggöts are prosecuted in nigeria.....so anyone claiming to be one would be protected. I don't believe this dude one jot!

Interesting. I'm guessing he also came on National TV in Nigeria because he wanted to be killed in Nigeria?
Get your facts straight.

the_ripper: Too many Gay stories nowadays on nairaland. Is there some sort of covert Evangelism we aint aware of?

Who run this world? GAYS GAYS!!

Dolemite: and now home boy is in a better country enjoying a better life style while holier than thou Nigerians are still wallowing in poverty!!! so who won in the end...ahahhahah

I agree with you but I don't think he risked his life in Nigeria just so he could move to the UK. He could have been murdered in Nigeria after the television interview.
Again, "God" always has a reason for everything.

kpolli: This one became gay all in the name of residency, o ma se ooooo

Apparently you were dumb to understand the video. He was gay in Nigeria until people like you ran him off. Atleast he has a much better life in the UK where he has some basic human rights while you keep on preaching your hatred!!

martinseme: People are kidding with their eternal destination after judgement. A normal healthy human has a lot of cravings which when they contravene law of acceptable norms has to be subdued. We all have the desire to satisfy our pleasure for lust,fame,physical arousals (for fellows same sex,opposite sex,animals and in animate objects), and wealth. But due to the need to maintain social order and cultural norms we have to keep our desires in check and live within the confine of laid down laws. When people now allow their desires to rule over their sense of social justice by breaking laws it then predisposes them to be liable to face punishment be it temporal or permanent. Homosexual is a grave sin against the law of eternal retribution and its offenders are damnable in hell.

Has it occurred to you that not everyone believes in whatever it is that you believe in Have u ever heard about separation of church and state?
If our political leaders made all their decisions based on their religious beliefs, this boko Haram thing will only be a tip of the iceburg.

shymexx: Phaggots again?

We live in a world of double standards - they stay forcing this inane foreign homoerotic lifestyle on African/black people... Yet the same people think polygamy(which is African) is barbaric...

I'm not against phaggots... however, if you want Africans to legalise homoeroticism(which is foreign) - why not legalise polygamy in the Western world for Africans as well?

This phaggot needs to stay in London and stay getting his butt ripped apart over here, don't go over to AFrica... The continent has enough problems already and I'm sure homoeroticism is the last thing they want to start dealing with now...

You argument about polygamy is a lil stu-pid. Polygamy is illegal in most countries as a way to protect women's right. Your African fathers were getting married to these women not because they loved them but as a way to "enslave" them and their kids.
It's sad that an intelligent young man/woman like you in the 21st century is talking about the legalization of polygamy. This is just exactly what's wrong with Nigeria. We educated africans need to get away from our obsolete/archaic beliefs. It's absolutely not going to get us anywhere.
You absolutely do not have to be for gay marriage but atleast recognize that there are people out there that are gay and you should respect that.
In the next decade or so, this whole gay marriage controversy will be history.

If he's transiting through another country, he might not be allowed to board a plane. An expired passport is just as good as no passport. Just like u can't drive on an expired drivers license, u sure cant fly on a expired passport either.

What an ignorant statement!

chief batiatus: Am so disappointed in elton john as an animal, am so disppointed at the british society that can allow 2 men who cannot naturally give birth to a child to keep one and nuture as their own. I am so disappointed generally in the west for giving the hating islamic world one more justification for bombing them and infact all civilization to hell. May God punish only Elton John, the British Govt, the British prime minister and all the warped souls that can afford to contemplate this obvious and brazen transgression of the very essence of morality. Very soon I see the british allowing a dog or animal that has money been allowed to keep a child as far as it can pay the bills! So if 2 men think they are husband and wife and are normal then why can't the govt also allow them to give birth to their own baby? Pls if there is anybody on this thread that can make cameron hear this, tell him his grandchildren will one day be adopted by a dog that can pay their bills

Move back to Nigeria!!!

Duke_Nija: I feel for those Kids!
Denied the irreplaceable Motherly care and Love.
These kids will most likely be gay, as 'Daddy' and 'Mommy' are both Men.
Gosh! The simple thought of it makes me sick. Two grown as$ elderly men, playing Mommy and Daddy.

They want to be Gay, and still have Kids? Why didn't they ask themselves, If Men were meant to be Married to Men, why can't Men get pregnant? Why resort to a Woman to carry your kids? Isn't that enof reason to know they re on the wrong side?

Gay Men should not have Kids. #EOD

Did you know that most gays were raised in what you would describe as a "traditional" family (comprising a man and women)?. So your assumption that these kids would turn out to be gay is completely stupid!!

Very cute. Great couple!

manny4life: The guy in the first pic looks like peter (Cynthia's husband in Housewives of Atlanta).

That is Peter!!

o'boy:
If this was written by an oyibo,the part that read "i was sweating like christmas goat" sounds Nigerian to me,
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Hmmmmm

You read my mind. This article was written by someone born and raised in Nigeria.

THE Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Wednesday arrested the Imo State Commissioner of Finance, Mr. Okafor Chike John and the Accountant General of the state, Eche Ezenna George over allegations fraud and sundry financial misconduct.

The Guardian learnt that they are being grilled by interrogators at the Abuja office of the commission.

Although EFCC’s Head of Media, Wilson Uwujaren was not available to confirm their arrest, an impeccable source within the commission said the duo were arrested in connection with a N47 billion loan transaction from Zenith Bank allegedly taken by the state government.

He said the immunity clause provided by Section 308 of the 1999 Constitution had made it impossible for EFCC to progress with any case against the state Governor, Chief Rochas Okorocha.

The commission will therefore focus on the two officials now in its net.

Being American doesn't make you rich and neither does being Nigerian make you're poor!