₦airaland Forum

these are only the signs of times, if you read the book of mathew 24, you will understand. the end will not come until this present world equate the time of noah, when man will sin against nature(genetics altration) after the abomination that cause desolution. then the end will come fast!

SHOULD WE? and CAN WE? These are commonsensical clauses the govt should checkout before executing ideas. THEY NEVER IMPRESS ME

Leo Igwe

The bill recently passed by the Nigerian Senate is said to have enjoyed a widespread support across Nigeria. The bill, which sanctions imprisonment for persons who contract, aid or abet gay marriage is said to be in line with our(Nigerian) ‘values and culture’. This bill, which legitimizes hatred, discrimination and persecution of persons on the basis on sexual orientation and gender identity is purported to be in accordance with the moral norms of Christianity and Islam, or at least the norms of Christianity and Islam as professed, practiced and understood by Nigerians or better, most Nigerians.

The senate has been commended by secular and religious leaders in the country for standing their ground against what some have said to be opposed to our( Nigerian)nature. The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Nigeria, the Anglican Communion, and other religious organisations have issued statements endorsing the anti -gay marriage bill.

And in reply to this move, I say ‘Count me out’.

Yes count me out of those Nigerians whom opinions leaders claim to be in support of this homophobic bill, and on whose behalf they supposedly conceived, drafted and sponsored this outrageous piece of legislation.

For me, this anti-gay marriage bill is a legislative move that will ever dwell infamy. Generations of Nigerians yet unborn will scorn, despise and dishonor those who conceived, sponsored and supported this bill of hatred and intolerance.

Yes, count me out this inane attempt to terrorize and hunt down innocent citizens based on their sexuality. Count me out those who endorse this bill that resonates with moral hypocrisy and double standard. When did our Nigerian lawmakers become moral police, dictators and directors?



Personally, I can only equate this anti-gay marriage bill to a moral version of the Boko Haram agenda in Nigeria. It is a product of fanatical minds. Yes, count me out this insensitive initiative to outlaw human rights at a time most people across the world are striving to embrace and enthrone the rights of ‘man’, and make them part of the culture, tradition and national ethos. Count me out of those with a warped sense of our values and culture, those with retrogressive and backward looking idea of what is ‘African’ and what is not? Count me out of those Nigerians who will not make human rights, gender equity and justice part of their values and culture.

Law making should be human rights compliant. Shouldn’t it? Laws should be made to protect human rights, not to deny or to violate them. This anti-gay marriage bill is anti-human rights. And as the American Secretary of State Hilary Clinton recently said in Geneva, Gay rights are human rights. Count me out of those who think otherwise.

So I oppose this legislative move to deny this self evident truth by the Nigerian Senate and their allies.

To be a gay is not a crime. To marry a gay is not a crime. To engage in same sexual relationship is not a crime. Count me out of those who think it is. Count me out of those who think that gay relationship should be criminalized. Yes as Clinton pointed out, ‘Being a gay is not a Western invention, it is a human reality’. Count me out of those who think it is not. Count me out of those who cannot acknowledge this reality. Count me out of those who continue to spread and celebrate the propaganda and falsehood that gay rights are unAfrican.

Gay rights are fully African. Being a gay is an African reality.

http://saharareporters.com/article/nigeria%E2%80%99s-anti-gay-marriage-bill-count-me-out




the guy is an attention seeker, he wan go obodo eyinbo by whatever means!

By SaharaReporters, New York
The Nigerian Red Cross is backing eyewitness accounts that yesterday’s blast in Kaduna, in which several people were killed, was a bomb blast, not a gas explosion, the Associated Press (AP) has said, based on an internal Red Cross report on the incident a reporter saw today.   

Yesterday, the Nigeria Police in Kaduna claimed that the explosion had resulted from a gas cylinder, dismissing eyewitness accounts which said two men riding a motorbike tossed a bomb into the area.

The Kaduna State Police Commissioner, Mr. Ballah Magaji Nasarawa, roundly dismissed reports of the two motorbike riders.  “That is not true,” he said.



On his part, Assistant Superintendent Patrick David, the commander of the anti-bomb unit, told Saharareporters on the scene that the blast was a “mechanical explosion” from reactive available at battery sellers in the market. 

Today, Kaduna state police spokesman Aminu Lawan told AP he was not aware of the Red Cross report, but maintained that the police's anti-bomb squad had concluded that the blast was accidental.

He said the squad found acid batteries, a gas cylinder and other "active" materials stored in the small shop where the fire started.



I dont fink i would love to believe wat NPF says!![color=#990000][/color]

Boom!!! May God Help us.

Africans will always be Africans. I stands to be corrected but i have not seen a war waged without the leader's selfish interest. i have also not seen a good war.the major difference between Hitler and ojukwu was the scale of the war. whereas Nigerians calls one hero and the other devil incarnate. Africans are always ready to protect their  own irrespective of their criminal activities and tendencies.when ojukwu was in a  mood to wage a war, He should have asked a little boy this questions! is it on a just and re sonable course? must pple die because of his Ego? is the timing right? cos i wondered why he never stayed and let himself be captured if he had really loved biafra.  all this commonsensical thought was not in place for a would be war lord. Shit! shallow mind he rushed to fight with little resouses . Everything was ill conceived and the consequence was to get a close attention from Nigerian Army. peeps, that was suicidal.and should be punished! Nigerians are too soft(follow follow too much)!. imagine papa ran  leaving his children to face the consequence of his actions and inaction. why must we celebrate such a person of cowardice behavior. what is the difference between him and our thieving politicians that put the cart before the horse! As a Nigerian and irrespective of where i come from, i will always support a revolution that will unified the country not one that  will had it break up.Period!

IBB should not take this too personal. Let him defend himself with facts!

i fail to decipher the difference between his current statement and , :Bokoharam, laydown your arms and you will be spared", Shallow mind!

mediocrity

4 more refineries will negate the word subsidy automatically but if this is not commonsensical enough to Jonathan. then removal of subsidy will be the last straw that will break the Carmel's back. and if the unthinkable starts and degenerate. it will be free for all vengeance, Nigeria will BOOM!!!!!  Am too sure 80% of our politicians right from military rule till date will not survive the Impact. cos, this is not a divide and rule tactics, this is not about ethnicity or tribal war, this is about survival. then our own end of world will come! . Jonathan you better think!!!

woe unto our so called leaders that are destroying Nigeria or Nigerians. And to the people that annoyingly supported them" they shall know no peace!"

am sure senate president must av gone on a private house visit to a long lost friend and hit his leg when he was trying to navigate his way through darkness , who is David deceiving , this man does not even know when he was using PHCN or Generator in his house or office! nonsense

must they buy cars from govt money  , is it that these pple are not mobile before they got elected?  why waste public money at every oppurtunity. this is very sad and worrisome!

wetin be this guy's intention , he wan declare sharia for onitsha?

how i go dey take dey laugh , forget it, i cant live anywhere else joor, leaving naija is dangerous to my health chikena!!!

hummmmm "SPECIAL FINDINGS", who are the decieving!!!

see finish

This people don see Goodluk finish , won ri gbewu dani bee nni!!!!

we are so messy with govt institutions(corrupted system), imagine Boko should lay hands on nuclear materials they will not hesitate to use ooo

nuclear!!!!, we cannot maintain PHCN or ordinary road but the govt is promoting nuclear source of electricity. them no dey see themself for day, na night! but wait!, this jonathan has intentions ooooo, why SW and NC  na only water dey for south south?, abi land or space no dey there?

is it not this same ogun that want to establish 10,000 industries? , na spirit go dey work there

Zimbabweans will from now on start tackling more than only inflation.

, as if we are surprise that they don't know anything.

meeeeeeennnnn, dat looks like a world record ooo!

Nigerian senators opinions don't usually find a way up Nigerian news cover frequently but when it did, it is mostly for a weired reasons.

Our problem is simply spiritual!, see, all this you will see when God is against a nation, our leaders are like one running in a slippery dark tunnel and the angel of God chasing them. May God forgive us

;Dour politician wont just get it, they are like the proverbial hen that refuses to blame the knife that killed it but the pot that is cooking it!, as moronic as our politicians are, and with what the speaker just said, then i know that an ordinary Nigerian is way more sound than any of our security agencies . sure, Nigerians are not equip ed to make explosives, sure its from developed nations. but has any ever wondered how many of IRAN ship loaded weapons that has pass through our volatile ports? but i know oneday monkey go go market and it will never come back!

their are secret that ordinary people does not need to know!, whatever might have happen then will always be a secret. may be that so called truth was what mustapha made to believe, may be this situation might have been envisage!, may be the ADC guy does not even know the real truth. may be its even for nigeria's survival. with what am looking at, U dont want to know the real truth!

, talking to a terrorist?, it is when this position jonathan just took backfires,, he will then realize he still has the spirit of deputy Governor in him.

a lot bigboz will not like the way events were turning on this issue!, but cant wait to know the so called leaders that were bribed over in southwest,