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One detraction to the national rapport is the hackneyed lies. Lies told and retold many times as truth. Lies told deliberately to tinge a past of acrimony in brushstrokes of harmony. Nigeria never had a glorious past and the ‘’founding fathers’’ never envisioned a congenial future for the country. There has never been such a thing as ‘’Nigerian unity’’; it only exists in the tomes of make-believe. We would rather parrot this fiction than work at achieving a national accord. The first step to unity should be discarding the lies and embracing the truth about our past while seeking collective concurrence.

We must pursue national unity with truth and honesty about who we are; where we are from, where we have been and where we are headed for.
In 1950, Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, ‘’a founding father’’ and young politician from the north at the time threatened a ‘’holy war against the southerners rather than join them in one independent nation’’. “There is no basis for Nigerian unity. It is only a British intention for our country,” he was quoted to have said in Time Magazine of October 10, 1960.

Also, in ‘’The Biafra Story’’, the book by Frederick Forsythe, Balewa was quoted as saying in 1947: “We do not want, Sir, our southern neighbours to interfere in our development. I should like to make it clear to you that if the British quitted Nigeria now at this stage; the northern people would continue their interrupted conquest to the sea.”

Another founding father, Sir Ahmadu Bello described Nigeria as a ‘’mistake of 1914’’.
He infamously said: “The new nation called Nigeria should be an estate of our great grandfather Uthman Dan Fodio. We must ruthlessly prevent a change of power. We use the minorities in the north as willing tools and the south as a conquered territory and never allow them to rule over us and never allow them to have control over their future”.

In addition, Obafemi Awolowo, a founding father of Nigeria, never pandered to the illusion of a united Nigeria. He was forthright about the true visage of the entity. He classically defined the colonial outfit as a ‘’geographical expression’’.

Also, Nnamdi Azikiwe, even though he held nationalistic beliefs and tropes, and was more expansive in outlook, admitted that national unity was not ‘’quite a reality’’. ‘’Tribalism is a reality. National unity can be a reality; but at present it is not quite a reality,’’ he said in a lecture delivered in 1964 at Princess Alexandra Auditorium at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka.

Clearly, the founding fathers were not absorbent of the idea of a united country. The political parties they led trailed regional filaments. So, why do we cite them as some symbol of concord? In fact, they laid the groundwork of the present topsy-turvy.

So, situating President Muhammadu Buhari’s Independence Day speech where he said: ‘’Our founding fathers understood the imperative of structuring a national identity using the power of the state and worked towards unification of Nigerians in a politically stable and viable entity,’’ and examining in it through the microscope of our history, it is obvious this statement is patently false.
Another whopper – or rather confutation of reality — in Buhari’s speech is his statement that the ‘’underlying cause of most of the problems we have faced as a nation is our consistent harping on artificially contrived fault-lines that we have harboured and allowed unnecessarily to fester.’’

Well, Buhari has been dutiful in accenting these ‘’artificially contrived fault-lines’’ since he became president in 2015. His nepotistic propensity is unequalled. None before Buhari has been more provincial. In all facets of the national life, the president has obtrusively shown preference to people of his native complexion and religion. The evidence is littered in the lopsided appointments, sectional recruitment in the DSS, separatist promotion in the customs and other institutions.

The president also spoke about ‘’national healing’’ and banishing the stereotype of seeing ourselves as coming from one part of the country. Fantastic, but it is all platitudes. What is the president doing or what has he done to rouse the incandescence of ‘’oneness’’ among Nigerians? It is true Nigerians have always been divided, but Buhari has widened the chasm and tended the furnace by his deliberate pursuit of an insular agenda.

Buhari said it is necessary for Nigerians to ‘’support the enthronement of the rule of law by avoiding actions which compromise the judiciary’’. I agree. But I would like to remind the president that it was under his watch that agents of the DSS invaded the residences of judges in the dead of night in Abuja, mauling doors and breaking walls. Judges were abducted and some cast before courts on sudden charges. Was this not an attempt to compromise the judiciary through intimidation and fear?

Also, the nation’s chief justice, Walter Onnoghen was removed in vexed circumstances in the build-up to the 2019 general election, and another from a section of the country where the president comes from, appointed in a very murky affair.

Again, I would like to remind the president that he once slighted the ‘’rule of law’’ when he said it ‘’must be subject to the supremacy of the nation’s security and national interest’’, to justify his extra-judicial exertion on citizens.

So, again, it is all platitudes. The president’s Independence Day speech is simply a contradiction in lines and paragraphs.

Fredrick Nwabufo is a writer and journalist

Twitter @FredrickNwabufo

Obinoscopy:
Who can solve this? It's not as easy as you think.

(5+5)*2=20

The first aircraft assembled, and flown, by South African teenagers arrived safely in Cairo, Egypt, on Monday, after it jetted off from Cape Town last month.

The aircraft was assembled by a group of 20 students from vastly different backgrounds.
According to the BBC, the four-seater Sling 4 plane landed in Namibia, Malawi, Ethiopia, Zanzibar, Tanzania and Uganda during the 12 000km trip to Egypt.
Pilot Megan Werner, 17, founder of the U-Dream Global project, told the BBC that she was thrilled with the accomplishment.

"I'm so honoured to have made a difference around the continent at the places we've stopped. The purpose of the initiative is to show Africa that anything is possible if you set your mind to it," she added.

The teens built the aircraft in two weeks under the guidance of The Airplane Factory, U-Dream mentors and five team leaders from Denel Aviation.

Werner, who is from Krugersdorp, told the BBC that the team encountered some issues along the way, such as struggling to get fuel in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa and having to fly alone for two hours during the last leg of the trip from Addis Ababa to Cairo via Aswan.

"Driaan van den Heever and I flew alone for 10 hours, without the support aircraft, so it was two teenagers, all by ourselves with no support," Werner said.

https://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/aircraft-assembled-and-flown-by-sa-teenagers-lands-safely-in-egypt-20190709

Déjà Vu: I Fear It Will Be Unto Buhari As It Was Unto Jonathan In 2015

2019 Election
Fredrick

There is a grand conspiracy. A plot hatched in the pits of despair and agony. There are three conspirators involved in this plot – the Nigerian people, top business executives and the international community.
In this thrilling “scheme”, the Nigerian people are providing the hammer and the nail; business executives are providing the brick and mortar, while the international community is providing the moral and logistics support to seal the fate of an incumbent president.
This is a grand conspiracy!

But why?
The mass movement against President Buhari was expected. Nigerians are easy to please, but they are deficient of patience for incompetence. No doubt, the “locus classicus” of the Buhari administration is arrogant incompetence.
It is “generally agreed” that the government is rudderless. Even Aisha Buhari, wife of the president, attests to this. The government has failed on all counts, and has even worsened the yoke of citizens. The economy is floundering, the naira is tottering on the brink of further depreciation and external debts are piling up. 30 million Nigerians are unemployed and 13.5 million children are out of school. And there is no hope on the horizon.
Nigerians are dissipated; after expending so much hope and promise on the current government, they are now at their wit’s end. They want a breath of fresh air.
Also, businesses have not been impermeable to the Buhari hex. Companies are folding up; many of them are laying off staff and many more of them cannot pay salaries. Some top business executives say “Buhari is not good for business”. This has become a code phrase in the business circle.

An influential real estate developer in Abuja told me that the second coming of Buhari disrupted the market negatively, and that the sector has remained in suspended gloom since his administration.
As it is, the international community now longs for a Nigeria without Buhari as president.
In November, Priti Patel, a member of the UK parliament and former secretary of state for International Development, asked investors to be wary of investing in Nigeria. The lawmaker cited specifically the flagrant disobedience of court orders by the administration as the reason for her charge.
She also described the pretend fight against corruption as a “smokescreen”.
Hear her and be shocked:
However, the Nigerian government has continued to flout international law and convention, and it refuses to respect the various court decisions.
Investors must consider this long-running scandal and weigh this obstinance against Nigeria’s mishandled economic potential.
Let us not forget that Nigeria is the only member of OPEC that is dependent upon petrol imports to keep the country going. Nigeria is ranked 145th in the world for its ease of doing business, which demonstrates the risks of investment into Nigeria.

Despite the President’s public anti-corruption platform, Transparency International has not seen any reduction in corruption since Buhari took office. In fact, the precise opposite has happened, with Nigeria falling 12 places between the 2016 and 2017 rankings.
President Buhari currently faces serious allegations, which include staging show trials of opponents of a regime that is accused of corruption and graft, while simultaneously shielding his own party members and inner circle.
We should all welcome international efforts to attract international investment into developing economies. However, to do this successfully Nigeria must seriously tackle corruption, rather than use it as a smokescreen. It must honour its obligations to companies like P&ID. Until then, investors inevitably will be very wary of investing in Nigeria.
Just yesterday, the International Criminal Court (ICC) alleged that Nigerian security forces committed crimes against humanity. I fear some people may even go to jail. The intractable herdsmen killings, which some top officials in the West believe this administration has deliberately allowed to fester, and gross human rights violations, which are all documented by Amnesty International, are some of the grouse of the international community against President Buhari.
But how does one expend all goodwill in three years?
Really, the 2019 presidential election is between the Nigerian people and Buhari.

Déjà vu!
Fredrick is a media personality.

Samuel Awoyinfa, Peter Dada and Adeniyi Olugbemi

One of the daughters of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, Senator Iyabo Obasanjo-Bello, has backed her father on his recent open letter to President Muhammadu Buhari wherein the ex-President advised the incumbent leader against seeking re-election in 2019.
This was contained in a four-paragraph letter she personally signed and released in Abeokuta on Saturday night through the media aide of his father.
In his open letter released last Tuesday, Obasanjo had listed the areas where the Buhari administration had failed. These, he stated, included poor management of the economy, lopsidedness in appointments, nepotism, inability to tackle corruption in his cabinet and killings by rampaging herdsmen, especially in Benue and other states.
The ex-President’s daughter advised the Bahari administration to address the issues raised by her father and stop using her past relationship with her father, which had been overtaken by events, to score cheap political point.
Obasanjo-Bello expressed surprise over the letter she wrote to her father in 2013, currently trending on the social media.
She said, “I agree with the contents of the open letter and like all people that wish Africa well, hope that Nigeria someday comes out of its death spiral to become a leading nation in the world.

“I am surprised that the agents of the current administration who should benefit from the advice and admonishment of one of the most brilliant leaders to ever emerge in modern Africa have resorted to a cheap tactic that further reiterates the message that they found abhorrent enough to start looking for unconnected issues to put together to make their point.

“To say that Nigeria has problems is to make an understatement. The wise should listen, wherever help and advice come from.
“Those who republished the old letter should have spent time to respond to the content of the said letter, which among other things, called on President Buhari to join the rank of retired elder statesmen in 2019.

“I would think this was appropriate and even unnecessary advice, given the serious medical problems he (Buhari) has had over the last few years.”
Further expressing her disgust at those who posted the 2013 letter online, she described their action as shameful, arguing that since she left the Senate in 2011, she had not been part of any administration.

Obasanjo-Bello, however, concluded that “it is tiring to continue to be part of the Nigerian conversation when there is no positive impact to it.”

Also, a two-time governorship candidate in Ogun State, Prince Gboyega Isiaka, has said the recent call by Obasanjo for a national coalition to save Nigeria, is a welcome development. He said this in a statement in Abeokuta on Sunday.

Isiaka, who has expressed his aspiration to contest governorship election in 2019, saluted the former President’s courage at speaking truth to power.

He equally commended his vision for outlining in his open letter to Buhari what the nation needed at the moment to arrest its fast drift towards socio-economic backwardness and continuous human carnage.

He said, “It is a good thing that our Baba Obasanjo has again intervened at a crucial time in our national life. Governance has failed already and what Nigerians need now is a movement of self-liberation and emancipation.
“The political system is broken, most of the players are only self-seeking and after their personal welfare; and of course, the effect is the poverty, despondency and carnage in the land today.”

Isiaka said that Nigerians deserved a better treatment from elected leaders.

He argued that if those in authority were making a mess of governance and lives of citizens, it was then the responsibility of the people to rise up, confront the status quo and chart a path towards sustainable economic, social and human development.

However, the Unity Party of Nigeria has described Obasanjo’s letter as an act of mischief.
The party criticised the former President on why he refused to address a personal letter to the incumbent President the same way he claimed he wrote four series of letters to former President Goodluck Jonathan before addressing him through an open letter in 2013.

In a statement signed by its National Secretary, Alhaji Abubakar Sokoto, the party also faulted the former President’s advice to Buhari not to run in 2019, saying this amounts to advising someone not to pursue his legitimate constitutional right.

“If Obasanjo believes Buhari has not performed, let him and people of like minds mobilise Nigerians to vote him out in 2019. We believe he will have a large number of followers, particularly those corrupt persons who believe removing Buhari in power will ease their trouble with the anti-corruption agencies,” the party stated.
The party, however, advised the Federal Government to heed Obasanjo’s advice by redoubling its efforts at addressing the issue of herders and farmers’ clashes.

But the Liberal Democratic Movement has declared that the only way for Nigeria to defeat both the ruling All Progressives Congress and the Peoples Democratic Party in the forthcoming 2019 general elections is to support a new political party with fresh people.

http://punchng.com/obasanjos-daughter-iyabo-backs-dad-on-letter-to-buhari/

Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, has said that he has never told a lie before.
He made this disclosure yesterday during an interactive session with journalists in Lagos.

The Minister also challenged those branding him a liar to present concrete facts disputing whatever he had said before.

Mohammed said: “I have two burdens. The first is that I happen to be the face of the opposition, and PDP has not forgiven me, and I do not think they will ever forgive me.
“I think they look at the magnitude of what has happened to them, and they hold me solely responsible; which is not fair.

“But, I did my bit. Now becoming the face of government again, it is automatic to them that whatever comes from Lai Mohammed, we must shoot it down as fake news and a lie

“Incidentally, my father gave me the name Lai, also. So, it makes it very easy for them to make me a liar. But what I challenge them every time is, please, give me one thing I said that is not true. I have never told lies before.

He added: “Emotionally, you may not agree with me, but in terms of facts and figures, I have never said anything that they can be disputed. You do not have to like it, but you cannot deny that they are facts.”

http://www.currentnewsnow.com/i-never-told-lie-lai-mohammed-stuns-nigerians-another-lie/

No food, just booze..... Merry xmass

And bible verses that support drinking of wine.....
1 Timothy 5:23
23 Stop drinking only water, and
use a little wine because of your
stomach and your frequent
illnesses.

Ecclesiastes 9:7
7 Go, eat your food with
gladness, and drink your wine with
a joyful heart, for God has already
approved what you do.

Psalm 104:14-15
14 He makes grass grow for the
cattle, and plants for people to
cultivate— bringing forth food from
the earth: 15 wine that gladdens
human hearts, oil to make their
faces shine, and bread that
sustains their hearts.

Isaiah 62:8-9
8 The LORD has sworn by his
right hand and by his mighty arm:
“Never again will I give your grain
as food for your enemies, and
never again will foreigners drink
the new wine for which you have
toiled; 9 but those who harvest it
will eat it and praise the LORD, and
those who gather the grapes will
drink it in the courts of my
sanctuary.”

Romans 14:20-21
20 Do not destroy
the work of God for the sake of
food. All food is clean, but it is
wrong for a person to eat anything
that causes someone else to
stumble. 21 It is better not to eat
meat or drink wine or to do
anything else that will cause your
brother or sister to fall.

John 2:3-11
3 When the wine was gone,
Jesus’ mother said to him, “They
have no more wine.” 4
“Woman,why do you involve me?”
Jesus replied. “My hour has not yet
come.” 5 His mother said to the
servants, “Do whatever he tells
you.” 6 Nearby stood six stone
water jars, the kind used by the
Jews for ceremonial washing, each
holding from twenty to thirty
gallons. 7 Jesus said to the
servants, “Fill the jars with water”;
so they filled them to the brim. 8
Then he told them, “Now draw
some out and take it to the master
of the banquet.”They did so, 9
and the master of the banquet
tasted the water that had been
turned into wine. He did not realize
where it had come from, though
the servants who had drawn the
water knew. Then he called the
bridegroom aside 10 and said,
“Everyone brings out the choice
wine first and then the cheaper
wine after the guests have had too
much to drink; but you have saved
the best till now.” 11 What Jesus
did here in Cana of Galilee was the
first of the signs through which he
revealed his glory; and his disciples
believed in him.

Nehemiah 8:10
Then he said to them, “Go your way. Eat
the fat and drink sweet wine and send
portions to anyone who has nothing
ready, for this day is holy to our Lord. And do not be grieved, for the joy of the LORD is your strength.”

Deuteronomy 14:24-26
And if the way is too long for you, so that you are not able to carry the tithe, when the LORD your God blesses you, because the place is too far from you, which the LORD your God chooses, to set his name there, then you shall turn it into money and bind up the money in your hand and go to the place that the LORD your God chooses and spend the money for whatever you desire—oxen or sheep or wine or strong drink, whatever your appetite craves. And you shall eat there before the LORD your God and rejoice, you and your household.

Isaiah 65:8
Thus says the LORD: “As the new wine is found in the cluster, and they say, ‘Do not destroy it, for there is a blessing in it,’ so I will do for my servants' sake, and not destroy them all.

Matthew 11:18-19
For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, ‘He has a demon.’ The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Look at him! A glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ Yet wisdom is justified by her deeds.”

givbitcoin:
Say no to restructuring, it's an evil agenda by people who don't want Nigeria retain her status as the giant of Africa

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Nigeria the giant of Africa my foot, u better come to south africa and see what giant should possess

Nutase:
Another crime against animals. Its high time we criminalize this in Nigeria.

Killing animal in south africa is a criminal act... Even domestic animals are butchered by professionals

Some pple are crazy! How will an olosho return to being a virgin after repentance? Fanatics

- The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC)
recently instituted a 10-man committee on
restructuring
- Nigerians are reacting sharply to the
appointment of Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna
state as chairman of the committee
Rather than get excited over the appointment of
Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna state as
head of a 10-man committee on restructuring,
Nigerians are sending warning signals to the
ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).
Those who reacted to the development
wondered why the party would pick El-Rufai
who allegedly double-spoke about the issue of
restructuring some years ago and recently.
In his reaction, lawyer and rights activist,
Inibehe Effiong, wondered: “The same
governor Nasir El-Rufai, who recently
excoriated those calling for the restructuring
of the country and also described them as
misfits, is the same person that the ruling and
failing All Progressives Congress (APC)
found worthy to appoint as the chairman of
their so-called Restructuring Committee.
"If APC thinks that Nigerians are so stupid not
to see through their shambolic and ill-fated
agenda, they are mistaken. Who is fooling
who?
"This is certainly not how to lead. This is not
politics. This is fraud. You do not appoint an
anti-abortion advocate to formulate family
planning policies. Those who are being
deceived are those who have accepted to be
deceived.”
Effiong noted that Governor Rochas Okorocha
of Imo state, who recently said Nigeria does not
need restructuring, was part of the committee.
“The El-Rufai that I know is a divisive figure
who believes that his views are infallible and
that his ways are immune from censorship.
“APC should stop this nononsensical charade.
El-Rufai is not the type of person that should
lead policy discussion on a highly polarizing
matter like restructuring.
“A party that campaigned vigorously on the
manifesto of restructuring the country only to
renege after securing electoral victory,
appointed its members who have publicly
rejected the necessity for restructuring to
articulate the party's position on the matter is
nothing but a duplicitous party bereft of
decency.
“We are not all dumb in Nigeria. APC should
stop fooling itself,” an angry Effiong said.

Another top Nigerian activist and convener of
the South-South Peoples Assembly, Tony
Uranta, said in a post that the APC must stop
fooling itself.
On his part, the assistant secretary of the
Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) , simply
declared: “The composition of APC's
Committee on Restructuring confirms the party
as a very unserious, obviously insensitive
ruling party.”

NAIJ.com reports that while in the opposition
during the era of the Peoples Democratic Party
(PDP), El-Rufai was reported as calling for
restructuring. His position changed recently
when he kicked against the same agitation that
has now taken over the country.
Recently, top Nigerians began calling for
restructuring, but the APC kicked accusing
politicians of sponsoring the agitation for their
selfish interests.
The party however reneged days ago when it
set up the committee.
NAIJ.com earlier reported that a former
minister of aviation Femi Fani-Kayode also
condemned the recent move by the All
Progressives Congress (APC) to set up a
committee on the restructuring of Nigeria.
Fani-Kayode in a tweet on Thursday, July 20,
morning said the attempt by the ruling party to
initiate a restructuring process for Nigerians is
like the devil setting up a reconciliation
committee with God.
https://www.naij.com/1116090-nigerians-condemn-apc-appointing-el-rufai-chair-restructuring-committee.html

A TIGER'S TONGUE IS SO ROUGH, IT CAN LICK THE PAINT OFF BUILDINGS AND STRIP THE SKIN FROM THE BONES OF AN ANIMAL

Fashion Designer Karl Lagerfeld Who Wants to Marry His Cat

Fashion Designer Karl Lagerfeld Who Wants to Marry His Cat
12 In June 2013, the Fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld announced that he wished to marry his cat Choupette. The 77-year-old fashion guru said that he never thought it was possible to love 22-month-old Choupette as much as he does.

Lagerfeld is so enamored with the animal that her eyes are said to have been the inspiration for a cornflower-blue couture collection for Chanel, the fashion house for which he is head designer.

When Lagerfeld is not at home, the maids write down everything she does in little books so he can catch up on it later.

Lagerfeld adopted Choupette a year ago after looking after her for a friend for two weeks. He refused to give her back, and the pair have been inseparable ever since.

The fashion world is certainly waiting for the wedding of the year. (Source)

11 The Ghanaian Woman Who Married Her Dog (2009)

The Ghanaian Woman Who Married Her Dog (2009)
In 2009, a 29 year-old Ghanaian woman, Emily Mabou, married her dog (not pictured) because it has qualities that she had seen only in her late father. The a ceremony was attended by a traditional priest and curious local villagers.

Ms. Mabou said, “For so long, I've been praying for a life partner who will have all the qualities of my dad. My dad was kind, faithful, and loyal to my mum, and he never let her down. I've been in relationships with so many men, and they are all the same: skirt-chasers and cheaters. My dog is kind and loyal to me, and he treats me with so much respect.”

Her family boycotted the wedding due to the fact that they felt it was a stupid step to combat her loneliness, however the priest warned villagers not to mock the wedding but to “rejoice with her as she has found happiness at last.” (Source)

10 The 7-Year-Old Tribal Indian Girls Who Married Two Frogs (2009)

The 7-Year-Old Tribal Indian Girls Who Married Two Frogs (2009)
In January 2009, in a bizarre ritual, two seven-year-old girls from the remote Pallipudupet village in India were married to frogs. The ceremony was conducted "to prevent the outbreak of mysterious diseases in the village.''

The girls, Vigneswari and Masiakanni, dressed up in traditional bridal finery -- gilded sarees and gold jewellery -- and married the frog "princes" in separate, elaborate ceremonies at two different temples in the presence of hundreds of villagers.

The villagers threw themselves into the ceremonies with gusto, while residents living in the western part of the village acted as relatives of the brides and those from the eastern part play-acted as relatives of the grooms. The ceremonies had all of the usual elements of a traditional marriage including a sumptuous feast. (Source)

9 The 75-year-old Nepalese Man Who Married a Dog for Luck (2004)

The 75-year-old Nepalese Man Who Married a Dog for Luck (2004)
In 2004, a 75-year-old man in Nepal married a dog in a local custom to ensure good luck. However, this doesn't seem to have worked since the old man died three days later.

According to the information, he was following a custom of his Tharu community, which holds that an old man who regrows teeth must take a dog as a bride. (Source)

8 The Australian Young Man Who Married His Labrador (2010)

The Australian Young Man Who Married His Labrador (2010)
In December 2010, Joseph Guiso, a 20-year-old Australian man, married his best friend, a five-year-old Labrador.

Joseph Guiso and Honey were "joined in matrimony" at Toowoomba's Laurel Bank Park in Australia - and the real surprise is that 30 friends and family members turned up to witness the event.

Guiso calls himself "religious" and claims that he felt guilty living with Honey out of wedlock. Even so, he assured people that "it's not sexual. It's just pure love." (Source)

7 The Sudanese Man Who Married a Goat (2006)

The Sudanese Man Who Married a Goat (2006)
In February 2006, Charles Tombe, a Sudanese man, was forced to take a goat as his "wife" and pay to the goat owner a dowry of 15,000 Sudanese dinars (US$75) after he was caught having sex with the animal. (Source)

6 The 9-Year-Old Indian Girl Who Married a Stray Dog to Ward off Evil Spirits (2003)

The 9-Year-Old Indian Girl Who Married a Stray Dog to Ward off Evil Spirits (2003)
On June 11, 2003, Karnamoni Handsa, a nine-year-old tribal girl in eastern India, married a stray dog as part of a ritual to ward off an "evil spell" on her (she had a tooth rooted to her upper gum, which is considered a bad omen by her Santhal tribe).

The tribe elders said that the marriage would not affect the girl's life, and that she would be free to marry again later and did not need to divorce the dog. (Source)

5 The German Man Who Married His Asthmatic Cat (2010)

The German Man Who Married His Asthmatic Cat (2010)
In 2010, Uwe Mitzscherlich, a German man, wanted to tie the knot with his asthmatic cat Cecilia as soon as vets told him that she didn't have long to live.

However, because marrying an animal is illegal in Germany, the 39-year-old Mitzscherlich had to stage the bizarre ceremony, which he paid an actress US$ 395 to officiate.

Actress Christin-Maria Lohri asked him to say "I do" and Cecilia to say "meow" before pronouncing them man and cat-wife. (Source)

4 The Indian Man Who Married a Dog to Get Rid of a Curse (2007)

The Indian Man Who Married a Dog to Get Rid of a Curse (2007)
When the Indian young man Selva Kumar was 18 years old he stoned and clubbed to death two dogs he had found engaged in mating. He then hung their carcasses from a tree. That's the moment when he claims that his personal suffering began. His legs and hands became paralyzed and he lost hearing in one ear.

Fifteen years later, Kumar could no longer take the physical pain of the "dog curse," so he sought the advice of an astrologer.

What was the cure for his maladies? "Marry a dog."

That is just what Kumar did in November 2007 with a 10-year-old female dog named "Selvi."
(Source)

3 The Millionaire Woman Who Married a Dolphin (2005)

The Millionaire Woman Who Married a Dolphin (2005)
In December 2005, Sharon Tendler, a 41-year-old eccentric British millionaire, married the love of her life — a dolphin named Cindy — at an Israeli resort.

Sharon Tendler met Cindy 15 years earlier when she first visited the resort. Tendler took a liking to the dolphin and made a habit of traveling to Israel two or three times a year and spending time with her underwater sweetheart.

After a years-long romance, Tendler decided to embark on the highly unusual path of tying the knot with her beloved dolphin.

On the afternoon of December 28, the thrilled bride, wearing a white dress, walked down the dock before hundreds of astounded visitors and kneeled down before her groom, who was waiting in the water.

Cindy, escorted by his fellow best-men dolphins, swam over to Tendler and she hugged him, whispered sweet nothings in his ear, and kissed him in front of the cheering crowd.

After the ceremony was sealed with some mackerels, Tendler was tossed into the water by her friends so that she could swim with her new husband.

Regrettably, Cindy died on the afternoon of June 18, 2006, and her remains were disposed in the ocean. (Source 1 | Source 2)

2 The Balinese Teenager Who Married a Flirty Cow (2010)

The Balinese Teenager Who Married a Flirty Cow (2010)
Ngurah Alit, an 18-year-old Balinese teenager, was caught in the act of intercourse with a cow after claiming that it had flirted with him.

So in June 2010, Alit was forced to marry the animal in a ceremony as part of a Pecaruan ritual, a ceremony to cleanse the village of the unholy act of a man mating with a cow. After that, Alit's victim and new bride was drowned in the ocean. Thankfully, Alit was just "symbolically" drowned. (Source)

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The Man Who Married His Pony (1992)

The Man Who Married His Pony (1992)
In 1992, Mark Matthews married his pony named Pixel.

The television personality Jerry Springer tried to unravel the mystery of these relations on his talk-show in 1998. However, he failed because talking about zoophilia seemed too outrageous for some TV directors. Therefore, the show was never broadcast.

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