They know better now than to mess with the Niger- Delta.....
for those Nairalanders who have family members and friends studying abroad under the amnesty program please let us know as soon as their school fees are paid together with allowances or not.
The government must pay every farthing before amnesty ends by December.
THINKING OF A SLAVE MINDED INDIVIDUAL,WHITE MAN IS YOUR GOD WITHOUT HIM YOU ARE NOTHING.WAKE UP
Dbrainiac1: The commenter above me ain't in his senses.... so funny. Nigeria doesn't have to be dependent on any nation for arms... lol. we ain't gon get anywhere in this fight if dey don't help. We r technically deficit!
ALL I HAVE TO SAY IS 14 YEARS IN THE GALLOS IF I SEE YOU IN THE ACT
MaziKachi: Talk about legalizing or at least ignoring homosexuals in Nigeria and the average Nigerian youth will show up online and begin to throw tantrums. The reason for their homophobia is simple, its unnatural for a man to love a fellow man, its against our customs and traditions and it’s a moral ill. So when President Goodluck Jonathan signed the bill criminalising homosexuality, the whole Nigerians commended the “feat”. Of course, the West spoke out and Nigerians, in their usual bursts of inferiority complex, a deep seated fear that they were colonised and 50 years later, they are still dependent on their colonisers, spoke out, saying that America cannot impose its “devilish gay agenda” in Nigeria. Fine and good. Now, let us carefully dissect this situation, at the end, you’ll see that Nigerians are contradicting themselves.
According to the human rights declaration, all humans have the • Right to self-determination[1] • Right to liberty[2] • Right to due process of law[2] • Right to freedom of movement[3] • Right to freedom of thought[4] • Right to freedom of religion[4] • Right to freedom of expression[5] • Right to peacefully assemble[6] • Right to freedom of association[7]
So if we claim that homosexuality is a moral ill, what right have we to choose for another person, his religion? What right have we to decide what is right and what is not about another person’s life? Homosexuality, sex between two people of same sex in the privacy of their rooms and with the full consent of both parties does no harm to anyone, it doesn’t infringe of any of your fundamental human rights so what right have you to judge another human, to castigate another human simply because he chose to love a man his sex? If you claim its against your religion, do you know if his permits it?
Africans, having gone through slavery should be at the fore front of homosexual rights, not its biggest obstacle. In 1959, the police in Virginia arrested a couple, Richard Loving and Mildred Jeter. Their crime? They were married to each other. Richard was a white guy and Mildred a colored lady. If this had happened in 2015, Nigerians would have been online, throwing all manner of vituperations and accusing the United States of supporting racism. But then again, what is the difference between arresting an interracial couple for choosing to love one another and arresting a homosexual couple for choosing to love one another? Nothing! In both cases, the couples are arrested because the chose to be different, not to follow forged paths. At the end, Nigeria’s hostility towards homosexuals would be the greatest hypocrisy there ever was.
Another argument, perhaps, the most ridiculous of them all, is that homosexuality is against our culture and traditions. Then I begin to wonder which “culture” and which “traditions” these people mean. You sleep with a girl before you get married, it’s not against “our culture”, you become a Christian or a Muslim, it’s not against “our culture”, You marry from another tribe, it’s still not against “our culture”, you even go ahead desecrate shrines in the name of Christianity or Islam and it’s still not against “our culture” then, then when somebody speaks of accepting a man who chose to love another man, which by the way, is none of your business and you spring up with the argument that it is against our “culture” the one begins to wonder if you’re being hypocritical or you just decided to close your eyes to reason. Again, Kendall(1990) posited from her research in various African countries, prominent of which is Lesotho, that African culture, though not recognising homosexual marriages, was not homophobic. So I truly wonder where the argument of “culture” and “tradition” stems from and if this “cultures and traditions” cannot be changed by men who made them.
Finally, the sole aim of this piece is not to ask for the legalisation of same sex marriages in Nigeria, it is to ask for the acceptance of homosexuals as normal sane people who are aware of their decisions. It is to ask for the repeal of the law that criminalises same sex association in Nigeria. When we start to grow tolerant of each other and realise that a love affair between two consenting men or women does not hurt you or affect you in any way is when we’ll understand that being Igbo or Hausa does not really matter when it comes to determining the destiny of Nigeria. I am not a homosexual, but having read so much literature on slavery and what the black race has had to pass through to be accepted, I feel we should embrace and accept the LGBT community in our midst.
God bless this man,i tell people after all my travels i have come to discover that home is the best they keep arguing because they haven't traveled,even in america right now,as a black man you pray not to run into the cops,not because you are doing anything illegal but because you just might be next to take a bullet.Africans be proud of your self and your home abroad na land of boosting and suffering
vicadex07: A surgeon from Ghana who wanted to attend a medical conference in Spain applied for a Spanish visa but was denied. His response to the embassy was simply epic!
ask him what happen to all the money release to him during his time in office? why didn't he buy jets?
mahyowah: I was totally bewildered when the former Chief of Defence Staff Alex Badeh on Channels tv said Nigeria has the oldest fighter jets in the world. I couldn't believe it. With my hands on my head I wondered how possible it could be that Nigeria the No. 1 in Africa could treat a matter of security with levity. According to Badeh, our present fighter jets were last purchased in 1981. Till now, I'm still trying to believe his claim.
rubbish ,you wanted the western way of life, so take it
Asiwaju9ja: When there are no fathers anymore to teach these young men about basic growing up 101 and how to treat a woman with Love and respect.
Trust Nigerians we are catching up fast with trends. Baby Father/Mother trend not an exception. Who will teach our kids? Nigerians are fast going Nuclear(in the Family Size)
guess what you better get use to it, for too long we have allowed slaves to be insulting African tradition from now no more any so call pastor that burns any traditional place of worship, we shall make sure we burn down his church.so get use to it. if you insult our beliefs we shall insult yours as you can see you people came here joblessly to attack traditionalism that didn't disturb you
wrongnumber: You must be either a pagan or atheist. You are on your own. Go say this about Quran outside and i can imagine what will happen to you.Keep making mockery of the Bible,ride on.
excuse me tradition is greedy, quick question is it the bible that when it came to money human name became first before God. you are a slave a mental slave, please free your mind. white man who gave you bible doesn't follow it. you stupidly who he gave the bible to then enslaved you till today he is still enslave you
I wonder why many of you are fuming up for nothing.
He simply wrote that we should follow traditions and go with the flow of the fun fair but also made it glaringly clear that people should stop using the Bible or Quran as excuse for their greedy tradition but many of you don't ever read and assimilate but just look at a post in a glance and start commenting.
When it comes to placing God's rules and tradition side by side we are compelled to choose that of GOD so i wonder why this subject has turned many people here to pagans clamoring for tradition as if that supersede GOD's ordinances.SMH
slave mentality, anything the white man tells you is good but that of the black man is wrong, my friend wake up, going down on your knee to beg a woman to marry you, is that not an action of a slave
deadZONE: Nigerian families been selling their kids since 1899... am just saving money to buy my own slave. i dont know why a civilized country would still be doing trash.
This FTC is dedicated to the lady under me, sorry i didnt know u where behind would have open the door for u to walk in first.
My friend all you have written is simply rubbish, are you attempting to use jewish laws in replacement for African law, or you want to abandon African tradition for a jewish interpretation.my friend this is Africa bible has no explanation when it come to tradition so don't get it twisted
Toks2008: In many Countries, the issue of Bride price has been known to be a well grounded factor in determining your franchise over the lady.
In some parts of the world, this issue has been blown beyond proportion that huge money is usually asked by the Bride's parent and many suitors see this as very discouraging.
The amazing fact is that if you ask anyone why a bride price must be paid,they will be very quick to answer that GOD commanded it and even our pastors are quick to lay emphasis on this as a condition that must be met before a man and woman can be said to be married before GOD.
But is Bride price really a condition necessary for marriage? Can we say you are really married even if bride price have not been paid? Did GOD specifically lay down this as a law or was it man made tradition? Can Bride price be paid at anytime during the course of the couple living together as Man and wife? and is it proper for the bride's parents to present a list or ask for monetary bride price from the groom's family?
These shocking truths from the very Bible people use as yardstick for bride price will clear the air.
1. Bride price was never a commandment from GOD as a condition for marriage but only as a penalty for rape and in fact, you can still pay the Bride price and still be denied the woman to be your wife by the Father.
Lets read this from the book of exodus 22:16-17: "If a man seduces a virgin who is not pledged to be married and sleeps with her, he must pay the bride-price, and she shall be his wife.If her father absolutely refuses to give her to him, he must still pay the bride-price for virgins."
Deuteronomy 22:28-29: "If a man happens to meet a virgin who is not pledged to be married and rapes her and they are discovered, he shall pay her father fifty shekels[a] of silver. He must marry the young woman,for he has violated her. He can never divorce her as long as he lives.
2.Monetary bride is to be paid only on a virgin provided the man has slept with her before he decides to marry her but if the man has never slept with her,there should be no need to pay a dime on her.(Read again Exodus 22:16-17 above)
3.Even if a man meets a virgin and defiles her and decides to marry her,no man is expected to pay more than 50shekels of silver as a penalty and according to Google research, 50 shekels of silver is just about 15usd today so what is this madness going on where in some places a man is asked to pay hundreds and thousands for a lady who have probably slept with many men.
4.There was never ever a place in the Bible where GOD commanded the bride's parent to present a list but it is the groom's responsibility to bring whatever he dims fit for the lady he wants to marry.
The great example in the Bible was Isaac's marriage to Rebekah who was a virgin and there was no monetary exchange or penalty whatsoever between the two families but affordable gifts were giving to Rebekkah's family by Abraham but not demanded for by Rebekkah's family. Read Genesis 24:52-54.
5. Bride price according to the bible is all about virgins and all the references and bible verses all point to paying a penalty for defiling a virgin as well as giving gifts as Abraham did to Rebekah who also happen to be a virgin.
Genesis 24:15-16:Before he had finished praying, Rebekah came out with her jar on her shoulder. She was the daughter of Bethuel son of Milkah, who was the wife of Abraham’s brother Nahor.The woman was very beautiful, a virgin; no man had ever slept with her. She went down to the spring, filled her jar and came up again. 6.Payment of monetary bride price on ladies generally whether virgins or non virgins is a tradition and not a direct commandment from GOD and in some countries like india,its a woman that actually pays a dowry on the groom and not the other way round.
7.Presenting list or asking for monetary bride price from a man who conscientiously marries a lady is man made rule and not from GOD hence becomes a sin because its better to obey GOD rather than men.
Acts 5:29:Peter and the other apostles replied: "We must obey God rather than human beings!
Conclusively i would advice that we just flow with the fun fare and traditions of the land and pay the bride price to either the Father of the Bride or the Mother of any lady we want to marry even if she is a LovePeddler.
Nevertheless.outrageous monetary bride price or list must be discouraged because it is not even Biblical in the first place but only necessary to obey customs and traditions.
Even Prophet Mohamed(May the peace of GOD be upon him) has this to say:
"the most blessed marriage is one in which the marriage partners place the least burden on each other" (al-Haythami, Kitab ab-Nikah, 4:255). My candid take.
OF COURSE WE KNOW WHO WAS THE CHAIRMAN(PUPPET),EDWIN CLARK DESIGN THE AGENDA FOR THE CONFERENCE AND YOU CAN REMEMBER AT THE END THE RECOMMENDATION WERE DONE IN HIS HOUSE AND THEN THEY TRIED YOU GET IT PASSED ON THE FINAL DAY WHICH THE NORTH REJECTED BUT THEY STILL PASSED IT ANYWAY.LET US BE HONEST THE PROBLEM WITH NIGERIA IS THAT WE DON'T LIKE TELLING OURSELF THE TRUTH
Chiaka: So Edwin clark was the chairman of the confab ?? for your info, it was a northerner!
what are you saying that all the evils done should not be revisited,or all the thieves should just go scout free,while the rest of us Nigerians suffer because they come from a certain political zone?
Vanquay: All am saying is they should stop all this conspiracy, conference, counters conference and address their problems. Once their elbows are greased they keep quiet till their pockets get shallow again
FIRST OF ALL ARE YOU AWare THAT AREWA MEANS 19 STATES PLUS THE FCT IN NIGERIA which is more than half of nigeria,with the largest population of Nigeria.second tell yourself the truth during the confrence AREWA made is clear to GEJ that they are not in support of his agender in the confrenece they even fought with the chairman then.so were in your mind do you think that a sencible president in respective of where he is from would pass a confrence recommendation that was design by edwin clark.
Chiaka: My question is why is it only AREWA group after all these months waited for Buhari who is an Arewa member to come into power before saying that they don't support the confab that its anti north.
Buhari is one of the Arewa executives as you can see here:
YOU MUST BE CRAZY,A NATIONAL CONFERENCE THAT WAS DESIGN FOR ONE PART OF THE COUNTRY SHOULD BE IMPLEMENTED,MY FRIEND WAKE UP,IN A NATIONAL CONFERENCE ALL PARTIES MY DISAGREE TO AGREE NOT THE OTHER WAY ROUND
Vanquay: Its an Abo*ki's Birthright to rule Nigeria......"Mindset of a typical Northerner".
If you are tired of being Oppressed stand up for your Rights instead of slithering and Planning like cowards. Moaning Bitches
what is wrong with you,did you hear he was guilty,please in a racist america that we all know,just given a dog a bad name to hang it nigerians are not stupid and that story sounds stupid that he killed the woman in public
blaze2cool: This is very sad i am so disappionted in some nigerians.
rubbish,gayism affect everybody,it wipes out human race and forces our children to be what they are not.gayism is a mental sickness and you lie gayism was first practised by the romans it is strange to african culture infact you were killed right away if you were found.so save me this rubbish,if you like spend billion of dollar on campaign we in africa say no to this madness and am happy because the more you people push this rubbish,the more africans unite against the west
It is legalized homophobia, not same-sex relations, that is alien to Africa
April 26, 2014
by Sylvia Tamale
During a prime time interview with BBC’s “Hard Talk” show in March 2012, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni noted, “Homosexuals in small numbers have always existed in our part of black Africa …They were never prosecuted. They were never discriminated against.”
Earlier this year, confronted by internal and external pressure, Museveni reversed himself and signed the Anti-Homosexuality Bill in the full glare of the media — declaring that homosexuality was Western-imposed. Before signing the law, Museveni asked a team of top-notch Ugandan scientists to help him make an educated decision. The panel’s report did not mince words: “In every society, there is a small number of people with homosexual tendencies.”
Museveni’s bizarre actions can only be interpreted as a political ploy ahead of presidential elections scheduled for early 2016. Having been at the helm since 1986, Museveni faces serious competition both within and outside his party, not to mention a restless population afflicted by a high cost of living, unemployment and a general disgust with rampant corruption. By the stroke of a pen, Museveni succumbed to populist pressures and condemned an otherwise law-abiding sexual minority to maximum sentences of life imprisonment.
Uganda is not alone in its anti-gay crusade. Nigeria recently passed a law criminalizing homosexuality. Several other African countries — including Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Cameroon and Sierra Leone — have all expressed the desire to emulate Uganda and Nigeria. At least 38 African countries already proscribe consensual same-sex behavior.
The sad, tired but widely accepted myth that homosexuality is un-African has been valorized and erected on the altar of falsehood time after time. It is a myth that has been played out in numerous contexts, most recently over the debate on Uganda’s anti-homosexuality bill. However, historical facts demand that this fable be debunked once and for all.
African sexualities
The 'homosexuality is un-African' myth is anchored on an old practice of selectively invoking African culture by those in power. African women are familiar with the mantra. “It is un-African” whenever they assert their rights, particularly those rights that involve reproductive autonomy and sexual sovereignty.
The mistaken claim that anything is un-African is based on the essentialist assumption that Africa is a homogeneous entity. In reality, however, Africa is made up of thousands of ethnic groups with rich and diverse cultures and sexualities. As appealing as the notion of African culture may be to some people, no such thing exists. Moreover, even if we wanted to imagine an authentic African culture, like all others, it would not be static.
African history is replete with examples of both erotic and nonerotic same-sex relationships. For example, the ancient cave paintings of the San people near Guruve in Zimbabwe depict two men engaged in some form of ritual sex. During precolonial times, the “mudoko dako,” or effeminate males among the Langi of northern Uganda were treated as women and could marry men. In Buganda, one of the largest traditional kingdoms in Uganda, it was an open secret that Kabaka (king) Mwanga II, who ruled in the latter half of the 19th century, was gay.
The vocabulary used to describe same-sex relations in traditional languages, predating colonialism, is further proof of the existence of such relations in precolonial Africa. To name but a few, the Shangaan of southern Africa referred to same-sex relations as “inkotshane” (male-wife); Basotho women in present-day Lesotho engage in socially sanctioned erotic relationships called “motsoalle” (special friend) and in the Wolof language, spoken in Senegal, homosexual men are known as “gor-digen” (men-women). But to be sure, the context and experiences of such relationships did not necessarily mirror homosexual relations as understood in the West, nor were they necessarily consistent with what we now describe as a gay or queer identity.
Same-sex relationships in Africa were far more complex than what the champions of the “un-African” myth would have us believe. Apart from erotic same-sex desire, in precolonial Africa, several other activities were involved in same-sex (or what the colonialists branded “unnatural”) sexuality. For example, the Ndebele and Shona in Zimbabwe, the Azande in Sudan and Congo, the Nupe in Nigeria and the Tutsi in Rwanda and Burundi all engaged in same-sex acts for spiritual rearmament — i.e., as a source of fresh power for their territories. It was also used for ritual purposes. Among various communities in South Africa, sex education among adolescent peers allowed them to experiment through acts such as “thigh sex” (“hlobonga” among the Zulu, “ukumetsha” among the Xhosa and “gangisa” among the Shangaan).
It is ironic that an African dictator wearing a three-piece suit, caressing an iPhone, speaking in English and liberally quoting the Bible can dare indict anything for being un-African.
In many African societies, same-sex sexuality was also believed to be a source of magical powers to guarantee bountiful crop yields and abundant hunting, good health and to ward off evil spirits. In Angola and Namibia, for instance, a caste of male diviners — known as “zvibanda,” “chibados,” “quimbanda,” gangas” and “kibambaa” — were believed to carry powerful female spirits that they would pass on to fellow men through anal sex.
Even today, marriages between women for reproductive, economic and diplomatic reasons still exist among the Nandi and Kisii of Kenya, the Igbo of Nigeria, the Nuer of Sudan and the Kuria of Tanzania. Like elsewhere around the world, anal intercourse between married opposite-sex partners to avoid pregnancy was historically practiced by many Africans before the invention of modern contraceptive methods.
Clearly, it is not homosexuality that is un-African but the laws that criminalized such relations. In other words, what is alien to the continent is legalized homophobia, exported to Africa by the imperialists where there had been indifference to and even tolerance of same-sex relations. In Uganda such laws were introduced by the British and have been part of our penal law since the late 19th century. The current wave of anti-homosexuality laws sweeping across the continent is therefore part of a thinly veiled and wider political attempt to entrench repressive and undemocratic regimes.
Alien to Africa
Equally alien to the continent are the Abrahamic religions (particularly Christianity and Islam) that often accompany and augment the “un-African” arguments against homosexuality. African traditional religions were (and still are) integrated into the people’s holistic and everyday existence. It was intricately tied to their culture, including sexuality.
With the new religions, many sexual practices that were acceptable in precolonial, pre-Islamic and pre-Christian Africa were encoded with tags of “deviant,” “illegitimate” and “criminal” through the process of proselytization and acculturation.
The struggle to win full citizenship for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex groups is global. Even in countries where homosexuality has been decriminalized, the consciousness of the majority has yet to catch up with reformed laws. In order to completely dispel homophobia from Africa, we may have to employ radically new methods of advocacy that resonate with African philosophies such as Ubuntu. This concept encompasses many values — humaneness, solidarity, interdependence, compassion, respect and dignity. It rejects selfish, paternalistic and restrictive regulations issued by rulers riding high moral horses in complete disregard of the interests of their neighbors, their community and their fellow human beings.
The late Nelson Mandela described this philosophy as “the profound sense that we are human only through the humanity of others, that if we are to accomplish anything in this world, it will in equal measure be due to the work and achievements of others.”
The homosexuality-is-un-African mantra negates everything that African history and tradition has transmitted to posterity. A tenet of African philosophy holds that “I am because you are.” In short, it matters little about the differences that each one of us displays but much about the essence of humanity that binds us together. What really matters is the respect for human dignity and diversity.
we don't care,all we know is they should keep there madness in america only.we in this part of the world want no part of it
ROSSIKE: It's really his party's agenda, ie the Democrats. Being the liberal party as opposed to the more conservative Republican party, whoever represents the Democrats as president will promote gay rights.
Bros a crime has been committed.one doesnt need law to solve this,common sence is enough,the law states that only the senate can amend the order,and the senate was not inugurated at the time this order was amended neither did the last senate amend it.so which senate produce the 2015 rules?secondly the law never at any point in time give the clerk the power to amend the rules,so once again where did he get his authority from.the truth the clerk thought PMB government would be same as GEJ .for that jail is calling him.
chukwudi44: Lol what is the difference btw PUNCH and the NATION? If the senate clerk forged the 2015 senate rules can you please show me the original version of the 2015 senate rule before it was forged?
Both the police and the so-called unity forum senators have no case.Making the standing senate rules for the incomming NASS is the perogative of the senate bureacrats led by the clerk.It can however be amended within the life of that senate by 2/3 majority of the senators.The senate rule for any senate can only be in force for the life span of that senate after which it dies.That is why the senate rules are named after each senate 1999,2003,2007,2011 and 2015
If you want to challenge the powers of the NASS bureacrats to create the standing rules for the incomming senate simply go to court!!!! All this talks of forgery and alteration between the 2007 standing rule(which died with the 6th senate) and the new standing rule 2015 for the 8th senate is just laughable
my friend the same hand you use in googling this shit,go and google the atrocities of american soldiers across the world and come here to tell me of the two who is a saint and who is a sinner.tell us one case that has been prosecuted,have you ever heard that an american was taken to ICC or you haven't read about what is called article 19.like i said the problem with people like you is slave mentality,in your mind anything a white man tells you is correct and that of a black man is wrong.my friend you are a slave,you better wake up.
grandstar: Must you inssult me? Be angry but do not sin.
Whether angry or not, the truth can not be covered up.
About America's atrocities, they are not as brazen as that of our officers. And many of theirs have been persecuted and imprisoned.
Also, the condemnation of our military is not because of the killings in active engagement of the enemy. Nobody and including Leahy has condemned the military for deaths of civilians that are bound to occur when taking over camps at Sambisa or other areas. That is to be expected. Likewise it will be over the top condemning the US for deaths that occur during airstrikes on enemy positions.
The best they can do is to limit casualties or collateral damage to as low as possible.
In any event, we should pray that God's kingdom comes. At that time, all wars will cease (Psalms 46:8,9 and Isaiah 2:2-4)
You must be sick,saying what truth exactly has Nigerian army commit 1/100 of what the american army has done,of the two army which should be referred to as rapist.some of you have slave mentality anything from a white man is right,left for me people like you should be sent to there country never to return here
grandstar: The man Leahy said the truth. The pity is that the North due to their high level of illiteracy does not have a vibrant press whuich would have exposed the atrocities.
rubbish,remind me again tompolo is just like every human,he was only looking super human because he had azazzi and gej feeding him info then,let him try him self now,he would learn quite quickly that death comes to us all
LordVarys: Saw these tweets online, lot of wisdom for those who are seeking for another theatre of war in the Niger Delta
you must be igbo,only them speak tribalism,but as foolish as you are you forgot the mention tribalism when the writer mention every tribe except south south and south east.so i ask who is tribalistic?
Fleshly: To a fool (onoja12) everything is triblalism.!
Politics › Re: Buhari Pays Ex-Militants Allowances And Owed Arrears by onoja12: 6:39am On Aug 08, 2015
